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1612 J. Guy Jrnl. 6 Nov. in D. B. Quinn New Amer. World (1979) IV. 156/1 They [sc. canoes] be all bearing from the keele to the porteles, not with any circular line but with a righte line.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. x. vii. 1881 In the middle the Canoa is higher a great deale then in the Bowe and quarter, they be all bearing from the Keele to the portlesse not with any circular line but with a right line.

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 11 The Portlesse of the Fore-Castell was in the water.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. vi. 64 Our Main-yard and Fore-yard were lowered down a Port last, as we call it, that is down pretty nigh the Deck.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum 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.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World i. 3 By 11 of the clock we were under bare poles, with our yards a portland.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Hutter, to lower the lower yards down a port-last.

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 164 A ship lying to, with her yards a portland.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Port-last, or Portoise, synonymous with gunwale.

1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World v. 202 They lowered the yard a-portlast, striving harder one would have said than it was possible for men to strive.