Portside

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

On the port (left) side of a ship..

Definitions by Sense

1. On the port (left) side of a ship.
2. An area alongside a port.
3. The port (left) side of a boat.
4. Toward or on the port side.

Example Sentences

All was quiet for several minutes until the fog broke and a large oak tree passed outside my portside window.

The portside lounge in shades of tan and yellow seated sixty-six passengers while a TV Lounge on the starboard side could accommodate forty-eight passengers in a predominantly blue space.

The net is taken in by repeatedly strapping off lengths of the net that are hauled forward alternately from the portside and starboardside; the pile of netting in the foreground is made from successive bights of the net resulting from this procedure.

It is obvious that the reasonable principles do not require a merchant ship to bear a green light at her starboardside and a red light at her portside, but if each State were to regulate the colour and the place of the lights with unlimited sovereignty, and without regard for the uniformity, the regulation would be a danger instead of a measure of precaution.

Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated

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Word Forms

• portsides
• more portside
• most portside

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