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outport † 

• 1 n. Nfld any port other than St. John's, especially one of the many small, isolated fishing villages on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

  See also: out-harbo(u)r  

  • 1820  (1956)  Almost every fifth fisherman is what is termed a 'Planter,' particularly in the outports of the Island.
  • 1918  (n.d.)  . . . men from far-away outports had been . . . collecting at the capital. . . .
  • 1966  When I was a boy growing up in a Newfoundland outport, we had no sources of entertainment from the outside world. . . .

• 2 n. Maritimes a small coastal fishing village.

  • 1835  Now Halifax is . . . fed by the outports, and they begin to have enough to do to feed themselves--it must lam to live without em.
  • 1865  In the outports there has been little work except what was afforded by means of the Road Grant of 1st Session.
  • 1953  Run the whole thing from an outport, where I don't have much taxes to pay; place where I can refit my vessels at my own wharf, on my own slips. . . .