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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Port  \Port\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ported};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Porting}.]  [F.  porter,  L.  portare  to  carry.  See  {Port} 
  demeanor.] 
  1.  To  carry;  to  bear;  to  transport.  [Obs.] 
 
  They  are  easily  ported  by  boat  into  other  shires. 
  --Fuller. 
 
  2.  (Mil.)  To  throw,  as  a  musket,  diagonally  across  the  body, 
  with  the  lock  in  front,  the  right  hand  grasping  the  small 
  of  the  stock,  and  the  barrel  sloping  upward  and  crossing 
  the  point  of  the  left  shoulder;  as  to  port  arms. 
 
  Began  to  hem  him  round  with  ported  spears.  --Milton. 
 
  {Port  arms},  a  position  in  the  manual  of  arms,  executed  as 
  above. 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  porting 
 
  Translating  software  to  run  on  a  different  computer  and/or 
  {operating  system}. 
 
  (1995-01-06) 
 
 




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