larger ships and cargoes made it necessary to create a new port, or outport, at Avonmouth
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The chapter on ports scarcely mentions the slave trade, much less their work on the English outports.
1.1British Any British port other than London.
〈英〉伦敦以外的任何英国港口
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Antwerp also secured the dominance of London - the nearest estuarial port - over the other English ports, which became known by the end of the century simply as the outports.
Its stranglehold on overseas trade, and therefore on most of the early banking and financial activity, was slow to ease; in consequence much of the trade from most of the outports had to be directed via London.
Case studies of the shipping and trade of major outports like Liverpool and Hull have contributed valuable evidence to the on-going debate about the origins and character of the industrial revolution.
2Canadian (especially in Newfoundland) a small remote fishing village.
〈加〉（尤指纽芬兰的）边远小渔村
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The resettlement of Newfoundland's rural outports is a familiar, if troubling, scene for many Newfoundlanders.
As much as it sounds like the name of an outport fishing village somewhere in Newfoundland, it is not an actual place but rather a state of being.
And the wonderful work she was doing in her outport district would probably come to an end.
His plot kicks in when, by a twist of fate and some benevolent blackmail, a young doctor is forced to leave Montreal and spend a mouth on the windswept outport.
It's an east island accent, that Protestant strain you find in certain outports.
Definition of outport in US English:
outport
nounˈoutˌpôrt
A subsidiary port built near an existing one.
外港
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The chapter on ports scarcely mentions the slave trade, much less their work on the English outports.