Usually means: Window on a ship's side.
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  1. porthole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. porthole: Merriam-Webster
  3. porthole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. porthole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. porthole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. porthole: Vocabulary.com
  7. Porthole, porthole: Wordnik
  8. porthole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Porthole, Porthole: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. porthole: Wiktionary
  11. porthole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. porthole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. porthole: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Porthole, porthole: Dictionary.com
  15. porthole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. porthole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Porthole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Porthole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. porthole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. porthole: Rhymezone
  21. porthole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. porthole: FreeDictionary.org
  23. porthole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. porthole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. porthole: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. porthole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. porthole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic) A gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannon are fired.
noun:  (nautical) A circular window set in the hull of a ship.

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