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noun

a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.

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Origin:
1880–85

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port of call

—n
1.	any port where a ship stops, excluding its home port
2.	any place visited on a traveller's itinerary

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"Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. You're sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you're wrong, Christian! I'll take this boat as she floats to England if I must. I'll live to see you—all of you—hanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet."

-Talbot Jennings