port of call
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port of call
noun ports of call
- Any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies. Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
- A place visited. My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man.
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noun any port being visited by a ship
| Français | escale |
|---|---|
| Italiano | scalo |
| עברית | נְמַל פְּקִידָה nemal pkida |
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title = {port of call},
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