What is the meaning of PORT WINSTON. Phrases containing PORT WINSTON
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Over to the port side.
Port Winston was slang for the mulberry harbour at Arromanches in Normandy, France during theSecond World War.
Prot is Australian slang for a Protestant.
Sort is British slang for an attractive woman. Sort is Australian slang for a girl or woman.
Woman. 2. Strong approval of the opposite sex. "Boy, look at her she's a real sort! See also top sort
The port at which a vessel is based.
At a naval mess dinner, port is served just prior to the loyal toast. Before the toast is made, the port decanters are passed to all diners so they may pour themselves a serving of port. The tradition in a naval mess is for the port to be slid along the table from diner to diner, with the bottle of port never leaving the table as it is passed. Although, the port decanter is slid when passed, it may be lifted when it is poured. Incidentally, the port is always passed to the left.
Pork is American slang for to have sexual intercourse.
Port and brandy is London Cockney rhyming slang for sexually aroused (randy).
Channel port is London Cockney rhyming slang for a 'short', a measure of spirits.
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v. t.
To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
adv.
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
v. t.
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
n.
A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
n.
A size of paper. See Pott.
v. t.
To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.
a.
Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
v. t.
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
n.
The European whiting pout or bib.
n.
The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.
n.
The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
n.
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
v. t.
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.
n.
The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.
n.
The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.
n.
A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
v. i.
To have a part or share; to partake.
v. t.
To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.
v. i.
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
adv.
On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.
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