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单词 portoise
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portoisen.

Forms: 1700s–1800s portoise, 1800s portaise.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps related to earlier port-last n. and portlof n.
Nautical. Obsolete.
The gunwale of a ship; = port-last n. a portoise: of a yard, lowered to the level of the gunwales.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > each continuous line of planking > uppermost
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1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. iii. at Ride Ride a-Portoise, is when the Yards of a Ship are struck down upon the Deck; or when they are down a-Port-last.
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. (at cited word) For a Ship to ride a Portoise, is to ride with her Yards a Portlast, or struck down on the Deck.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 255* Portoise, the same as Port-last.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Port-last, or Portoise, synonymous with gunwale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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