Gosport Definition

gŏspôrt
noun
A flexible speaking tube used for one-way communication between individual compartments or cockpits of an airplane.
American Heritage
pronoun

A town in Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth.

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Origin of Gosport

  • After Gosport municipal borough of southern England, the site of the training facility of the British air force where it was invented

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gosport Sentence Examples

  • He put himself under the tuition of David Bogue of Gosport and carried away deep impressions from his academy.

  • In the spring of 1861 the Federals set fire to several war vessels in the Gosport navy yard on the Elizabeth river and abandoned the place.

  • The chief movers in the enterprise were the Congregationalist, David Bogue of Gosport, and the Episcopalian, Thomas Haweis, rector of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire.

  • He then settled as minister of the Congregational church at Gosport in Hampshire (1777), and to his pastoral duties added the charge of an institution for preparing men for the ministry.

  • The harbour widens inwards in bottle form, Portsmouth lying on the east shore of the neck, with Gosport opposite to it on the west side.

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