outport

American  

[out-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈaʊtˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

1. a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.

2. Canadian. an isolated fishing village, especially on the Newfoundland coast.

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outport British  

/ ˈaʊtˌpɔːt /

noun

1. a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port

2. one of the many isolated fishing villages located in the bays and other indentations of the Newfoundland coast

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Etymology

Origin of outport

First recorded in 1635–45; out- + port ¹

Example Sentences

In Newfoundland, fishing villages are known as outports, and the outport where we were heading was Summerville, off the Indian Arm of Bonavista Bay.

From Washington Post

Yolande Pottie-Sherman, a researcher and geography professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, said resettlement poses important questions: should remote communities and outport culture be kept alive, and at what – and whose – expense?

From The Guardian

Worshipers last attended a service here in 1965, before a government resettlement policy forcibly moved the 157 residents of the remote fishing village, or “outport,” to larger communities in order to centralize the population.

From New York Times

If you were to ask a fisherman of some remote outport what his flour was made of he would stare at you and be mute.

From Project Gutenberg

Steps were also taken in 1863 to improve the accommodation to the outports by substituting a steam vessel for the sailing boats, by which the exchange of mails was effected.

From Project Gutenberg