porthole

noun

A small, usually circular window in a ship’s side.

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An opening in a fortified wall; an embrasure.

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An aperture in a ship’s side, especially one of the apertures through which the guns are protruded and fired.

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The opening to the steam-passages into or from a cylinder, or to the exhaust-passage. See port

noun

In zoology, one of the minute apertures or cinclides in the body-wall of a sea-anemone through which the gastric filaments or acontia are protruded.

noun

An embrasure in a ship’s side. See 3d port.

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A circular window set in the hull of a ship.

noun

a window in a ship or airplane

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an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through