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ˈport-last Naut. ? Obs.
Also 7 portlasse, -lesse, 8–9 (erron.) portland.
[Original form and derivation obscure: cf. portlof.]
Of uncertain meaning: explained, from 1704, as the gunwale of a ship. Chiefly in phrase (down) a portlast: said of a yard.
1633T. James Voy. 11 The Portlesse of the Fore-Castell was in the water. Ibid. 113 The Portlasse. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 64 Our Main-yard and Fore-yard were lowered down a Port last, as we call it, that is down pretty nigh the Deck. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Port-last, the same as the Gun-wale of a Ship; therefore they say a Yard is down a Port-last, when it lies down on the Deck. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 3 By 11 of the clock we were under bare poles, with our yards a portland. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Hutter, to lower the lower yards down a port-last. 1815Sporting Mag. XLVI. 164 A ship lying to, with her yards a portland. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Port-last, or Portoise, synonymous with gunwale. |