home port

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noun

the port where a ship is registered.

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

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Origin of home port

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby home port

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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

home port

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