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Definition of Port warden

Port warden
Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. --Shak. We are in port if we have Thee. --Keble. 2. In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. Free port. See under Free. Port bar. (Naut,) (a) A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

Meaning of Port warden from wikipedia

- The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century, when the title was Keeper...
- Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1852), was a US Supreme Court case that held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or...
- Look up warden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Warden". A warden is a custodian...
- A portreeve (Old English: hæfenrēfa, sometimes spelt Port-reeve) or port warden is the title of a historical official in England and Wales possessing authority...
- The town is one of a few to still annually appoint a portreeve or 'port warden'. Others are Laugharne, Beccles, Callington (where the name is given...
- Walerand Teutonicus was a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports during the thirteenth century. A feature of British maritime history of this period was the appointment...
- Scot's Hall in Smeeth, Kent (1459 – 24 August 1524) was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. William Scott was the son of Sir John Scott and Agnes Beaufitz...
- commander who was Admiral of all the Fleets about England and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports during the mid-14th century. He was the son of William de Herle...
- and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports during the thirteenth century. In 1262 Walter de Burgsted was given a commission 'to keep the Cinque Ports', effectively...
- November 1823. Johnston was a director of the Bank of New Brunswick and a port warden for the harbour at Saint John. With others, he helped establish the first...