home port

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noun
  1. the port where a ship is registered.

  2. the port out of which a ship is operated but not necessarily registered.

Origin of home port

1
First recorded in 1890–95

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How to use home port in a sentence

  • The boys explained to the astonished and grieved Younkins how they had been wrecked, as it were, almost in sight of the home port.

    The Boy Settlers | Noah Brooks
  • As we neared our home port we met two trollers, one of whom lifted up for envious inspection a lusty pickerel.

    In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. Robinson
  • "Scoot" is the only word that would fittingly describe the Hawk's return to her home port.

    Motor Matt's Daring Rescue | Stanley R. Matthews
  • A ship had just come in, the sailors browned and cheerful at being once more in their home port.

    Mr. Wicker's Window | Carley Dawson
  • He answered to the hail of Billings, and his home port was the Stumpton ranch, 'way out in Montana.

    The Depot Master | Joseph C. Lincoln