portlessadj.
/ˈpɔːtləs/, U.S. /ˈpɔrtləs/ Without a port.
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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad x. 362 Her plains, long portless, now no more complain Of useless rills and fountains nursed in vain.
1865 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 258 The doctrine..that a portless or thoroughly blockaded power can have no belligerent status, has been defended.
1914 E. W. Wilcox Poems of Probl. 170 So again love's ship Goes sailing forth upon a portless sea From nowhere into nowhere.
1954 Times 3 Apr. 7/5 Britain cannot survive or indeed play any part in an all-out atomic war..In a week we would be portless and our communications centres blocks of rubble.
1981 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers 6 139 The [Iberian] peninsula lacks the continental resources to make a world capital of a central port-less city as has happened in the case of Russia and Moscow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1807- to make common cause with
- to make comparison of
- to make connections
- to make conscience
- to make construction
- to make conversation
- to make count of
- to make countenance
- to make courtesy
- to make courtesy at
- to make dainty of
- to make dainty of anything
- to make dainty of doing
- to make dainty to do
- to make danger
- to make daybreak
- to make debate
- to make default
- to make defeat of
- to make defeat on
- to make defeat upon
- to make defend
- to make deray
- to make dice of a person's bones
- to make dice of bones