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helm port

noun

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  1. A hole through the counter of a ship, through which the rudderstock passes.

    • The 16th-century fluyts underwent yet another change: the cove, which we can see on Brueghel's engraving, and which had a helm port in it, through which the tiller entered the ship, disappeared.
    • Towards the end of the century the size of the helm port on large ships was much reduced by bringing the head of the rudder inside the ship.

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