port-bar

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PORT-BAR, noun A bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale of wind. Port-charges, in commerce, charges to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor, as wharfage, etc.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

More founding-era words: liberty · virtue · republic · justice · providence · commerce · militia · arms · prudence · establishment · religion · usurpation · tyranny · citizen · unalienable · sovereign