Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. Shak.

We are in port if we have Thee. Keble.

Free port. See under Free. -- Port bar. (Naut,) (a) A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. -- Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

Him I accuse
The city ports by this hath entered. Shak.

Form their ivory port the cherubim
Forth issuing. Milton.

Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water. Sir W. Raleigh.

Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc. -- Port bar (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale. -- Port lid (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel. -- Steam port, ***and] Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.

They are easily ported by boat into other shires. Fuller.

Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton.

Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.

And of his port as meek as is a maid. Chaucer.

The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world. South.