The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-port
Half-port \Half"-port`\ (-p[=o]rt`), n. (Naut.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
Usage examples of "half-port".
Eventually, the medal had knocked the directional lever into the half-port position, sending Polar Queen steaming around in corkscrewlike circles, ever closer to the Danger Islands.
The stubby barrels stared at the officer of the 2nd, who had managed to clear his pistol and bring it up to half-port in the fraction of a second it had taken to kill his servant.
More lights appeared in every scuttle and open half-port all along the berth-deck, and over a mile of water he could hear the voices of the bosun's mates, all the familiar din, so very like the ships he had served in.