home port

noun

1. the port where a ship is registered.
2. the port out of which a ship is operated but not necessarily registered.

Word History and Origins

Origin of home port¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The boys explained to the astonished and grieved Younkins how they had been wrecked, as it were, almost in sight of the home port.

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As we neared our home port we met two trollers, one of whom lifted up for envious inspection a lusty pickerel.

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"Scoot" is the only word that would fittingly describe the Hawk's return to her home port.

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A ship had just come in, the sailors browned and cheerful at being once more in their home port.

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He answered to the hail of Billings, and his home port was the Stumpton ranch, 'way out in Montana.

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