outport

/out-pawrt, -pohrt/US // ˈaʊtˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt //UK // (ˈaʊtˌpɔːt) //

港口,港口外,港口之外,港口以外

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.
- : Canadian. an isolated fishing village, especially on the Newfoundland coast.

A great American city is almost invariably placed at a point where an important railroad finds an outport on a lake or river.
It was a good partnership—this friendship between the Colonial knight's son and heir and the outport fisherman's lad.
Nieuport, the outport of Ypres, is the last of the towns in this region to which I shall call your attention.
If you were to ask a fisherman of some remote outport what his flour was made of he would stare at you and be mute.
But this did not interfere with his friendship with Billy Topsail, the outport boy.