portside

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portside

Where it comes from

From port + -side.

adjective

not comparable On the port (left) side of a ship. All was quiet for several minutes until the fog broke and a large oak tree passed outside my portside window.

noun portsides

An area alongside a port.
The port (left) side of a boat. 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.

adverb more portside · most portside

Toward or on the port side. Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated

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@misc{portside_2026,
  title = {portside},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/portside},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}