They traded their tobacco in small lots with the outport merchants, those from ports other than London, mostly Scottish, who sold the inferior tobacco to the countries in northern Europe.
This new procedure was carried on largely by the outport merchants, especially the Scottish, who were doing quite a bit of illicit trading before the Union of 1707.
Toby was aware of Archie's station--son and heir of the great Sir Archibald Armstrong; but being outport born and bred, Toby was not overawed.
A man cannot practice medicine out of a Labrador outport harbour and not know what it means to stomach a physical exhaustion.
It was a good partnership--this friendship between the Colonial knight's son and heir and the outport fisherman's lad.
A man cannot practice medicine out of a Newfoundland outport harbor for thirty-seven years and not know what it means to stomach a physical exhaustion.
If you were to ask a fisherman of some remote outport what his flour was made of he would stare at you and be mute.
Did an outport merchant want credit in any large way, it was from the opposite chair--with the light falling full in his face through the broad window--that he put the case to Sir Archibald.
Laurel," he added, "what is the outport of St. Petersburg?
She was sorry now that she hadn't known what an outport was, and determined to ask him to-morrow.
When our soberoutport people went to St. John's, as they must every year for supplies, they had only the uncomfortable schooner or the street in which to pass the time.
Out of the taxes, the major part of which is paid by the people of the outport districts in this Colony, the Government provides free medical aid in the Capital, presumably because those who have the spending of the money mostly reside there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outport" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
