porthole [
'pɒ:thәul]
porthole[ 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
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Porthole \Port"hole`\, n. (Naut.)
An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d {Port}.
- The crack was in the outermost of four panes of glass in the porthole.
- In reality, patience has gone out the porthole this season in the weekly scramble to fill berths.
- Staring out the porthole, he murmured something about "Streetcar" being his last play, his "swan song."
- Having damaged the exit-and-entry hatch at the beginning of the spacewalk, the cosmonauts were forced to return through an emergency porthole.