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portée
(ˈpɔəteɪ, ‖ pɔrte)
Also portee.
[a. Fr. portée (in various senses), f. porter to bear, carry.]
1. The importance or weight (of a theory, an argument, etc.); the (far-reaching) consequences (of an action or an event).
1894A. Lang Cock Lane 9 It is with this majority, if they choose to find time, and can muster inclination for the task of prolonged and patient experiment, that the ultimate decision as to the portée and significance of the facts must rest. 1899W. James Let. 28 Jan. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 136 You seem to take my intention in the lecture to have had a wider portée than I ever thought of. 1904H. James Golden Bowl II. xxv. 10 She called it [sc. her action] names, the invidious, the grotesque attitude, holding it up to her own ridicule, reducing so far as she could the portée of what had followed it.
2. In hand-loom weaving, a specified number of threads grouped together to form the warp. Also attrib., as portee cross.
1910L. Hooper Hand-Loom Weaving i. ii. 37 It only remains to take the group of eight threads below and over peg A in order to finish the first portee, as such a collection of threads warped in one round is called. Ibid. iv. 57 An excellent way of keeping account of the portees as they are warped is shown at fig. 27. Ibid. The fifty threads, taken all together, will pass above the first peg W, below the last one, then round it, and under the first, which completes the portee cross. 1954H. J. Brown Hand-Weaving v. 76 This second leash is called the portee cross. 1954M. E. Pritchard Short Dict. Weaving 67 One portee makes two warp ‘ends’. The word..dates back to the days of the Huguenot weavers in England, deriving from the French portee, meaning ‘carried’. 1958A. Hindson Designer's Drawloom vi. 55 The portee, or grouped, crosses must not be split when they are spaced in the raddle. 1965J. Tovey Technique of Weaving ii. 30/1 For convenience in keeping count of the number of threads warped, the ends of a strong yarn of a contrasting colour are crossed between groups of portées.
3. Mil. A self-propelled vehicle on which an anti-tank gun can be mounted. Also attrib. and in phr. ‖ en portée |ɑ̃| [Fr. en in].
1942Times 22 Apr. 4/6 Finally, only two guns remained in action... Immediately afterwards one of these was destroyed and the portee of another was set on fire. 1944Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 22 (caption) Anti-tank gun on portee at night. Ibid. 28/2 Portee anti-tank guns. 1948R. Farran Winged Dagger viii. 141 It was a large command for a subaltern—ten armoured cars of mixed varieties, eight Bofors guns, a two-pounder portee and a tank. 1948E. H. Smith Guns against Tanks (N.Z. Dept. Internal Affairs) 3 The two-pounders were carried on the decks of specially constructed lorries, termed portées, which were fitted with ramps and winches to enable the guns to be quickly hoisted into place. Special fittings..enabled the trail and spade to be clamped firmly to the deck so that the gun, pointing over the rear of the portée, was ready for immediate action. Ibid., Great attention should be paid to training the gun crews in fighting the two-pounders from the decks of the portées: that is, en portée. 1952Times 30 Aug. 5/6 Through it the light vehicles of 7th Armoured Division, portees, carriers, and light tanks, began to pass across our front as they skilfully drew on the enemy. 1958M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More viii. 151 It was eight o'clock before they piled into the portee-waggon. |