Definition of Portless

1. having no place for ships to load or unload [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Portless

portion out
portioned
portioner
portioners
portioning
portionist
portionists
portionless
portions
portise
portises
portlandite
portlands
portlast
portlasts
portless (current term)
portlet
portlets
portlier
portliest
portlike
portliness
portlinesses
portly
portman
portmanteau
portmanteau-word
portmanteau film
portmanteau films
portmanteau word

Literary usage of Portless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"... as in the La Plata and the Columbia, affords a protected anchorage on an otherwise portless shore, such inlets assume increased importance. ..."

2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"anchorage on an otherwise portless shore, such inlets assume increased importance. In the long unbroken reach of our Pacific seaboard, San Francisco Bay and ..."

3. Euripides by Euripides (1848)
"Forced by the winds on Libya's portless rocks. THEOC. How then escaped this man, who with him sail'dI HEL. Oft are the mean more lucky than the great. ..."

4. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"... on an otherwise portless shore, such inlets assume ncreased importance. In the long unbroken reach of our 'acific seaboard, San Francisco Bay and the ..."

5. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"As a painting stands not without a ground, nor a shadow without a stake, &c., so neither does subtile person subsist sup- portless without specific (or ..."

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