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Definition of Ports
1. port [v] - See also: port
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ports
Literary usage of Ports
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"2Î. eight hundred and twenty-two, between the United States and the British
Colonial ports enumerated in the aforesaid act of Congress of the first of March ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854)
"To lessen the danger of collusion, however, I should be for delivering passports
in our own ports only. If they were to be sent blank to foreign ports to be ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"ports. It may also be noted in this connexion that, as the war proceeded, the
American government was driven by the trend of events to maintain a virtual ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Lamport and Holt Line had passenger and freight steamers running to the river
Plata both from New York and from English ports, and steamers of the Booth ..."
5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"It will be seen that in some cases the laws are applicable to all the ports of
the nation, while in others they apply only to a restricted area of the ..."
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