outport
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌpɔrt/
- UK
:
puerto secundario
- After the end of the summer pogy fishery, fishermen from Newfoundland frequently worked on Bar Harbor estates and returned home with gardening skills to use on their tiny outport gardens.
Examples
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Belawan functions as the primary outport for the most productive plantation region in the country (Fig. 1).
Academic text (1991) -
They were modern men only too anxious to deny their outport heritage
Fiction book (2002) -
For both of them, an outport was the closest they could imagine to living a simple existence away from the crushing demands of the kind of modern life they both loathed.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Mowats left the outport soon after, but the "charring" took five years to see print, not until Farley had digested and even dreamed about the experience.
Fiction book (2002) -
But that year, Farley, 41, and Claire, 29, passionate naturalists disgusted with industrial society, settled in the Newfoundland outport of Burgeo.
Fiction book (2002) -
The small town served as an outport for the larger city, providing essential services to fishermen.
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During our trip, we visited an outport where the fishing community thrived far from urban life.
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In the summer, boats arrive at the outport to deliver fresh seafood to the local market.
Synonyms
460
1.8
A sheltered area of water where ships can anchor and load or unload
248
1.3
A place like a harbour where people and goods enter or leave a country
14
2.2
A town or city by the sea where ships load and unload things and people
1
8.9
A small station far from towns used for work or official tasks
How Big
- UK
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word outport is simply out ('away') plus port ('harbour'), so it names a harbour that is away from the main port of an area.