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单词 home port
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home portn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊm pɔːt/, U.S. /ˈhoʊm ˌpɔrt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home adj., port n.1
Etymology: < home adj. + port n.1
1. A port in one's home country.
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1657 Jrnls. House Commons 23 June (1813) VII. 569/2 If any Native of this Commonwealth, after Entry of Coals at Newcastle for any Home Port, and not finding Sale for the same, he making Entry in such Home Port, according to Newcastle Measure, he transport the same to any Foreign Port.
1701 J. Paschall Let. to Friend in Country 4 There were also Agents in our Home Ports in England, Ireland and Wales, in the Ports abroad, and many in the West Indies.
1756 Monitor 7 Aug. 9 Have we not still a vast reserve of men of war in our home ports?
1845 Times 28 Apr. 8/6 It is the intention of the Admiralty to have efficient ships for ordinary guard-ships at each of our home ports in future.
1909 V. Cornish Panama Canal & its Makers vi. 167 There would be hardly any United States ships to use it, except in transport between home ports from which ships flying foreign flags are debarred.
1992 New Yorker 24 Aug. 60/1 Another torrent of pictures, this one of body bags containing young soldiers being unloaded in home ports, could create..political retribution.
2. The port at which a ship is based or registered.
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1794 London Packet 16 Apr. Such certificate is either to be sent from thence directly to the Commissioner of the Customs, or as soon as the vessel arrived at her home port.
1849 Western Jrnl. Mar. 189 In all these extreme cases, the vessel must be abroad, for it is impossible that any such exigency could arise in the home port of the vessel.
1886 W. Goold Portland in Past xii. 458 With this lading the Dash sailed for Portland, and after beating off one vessel with her guns,..she arrived at her home port.
1908 Regulations Customs Inspectors, Weighers, Gaugers, & Measurers (U.S. Division of Customs) 53 Where an admeasured vessel is a new American vessel, the inspectors will ascertain if her name and home port are painted on the stern.
2009 D. A. Butler Other Side of Night iii. 50 The Californian's first crossing that year took her from her home port of Liverpool to New Orleans.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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