portfire (portfir)

[ port-flange (port'flanj), n. A wooden or metallic batten fitted on a ship's side over a port to keep out water. portfolio (port-foʻliō), n. [ I sat down, and turned over two large portfolios of political caricatures. Macaulay , in Trevelyan, I. 209. 2. Figuratively, the office of a minister of state: as, he holds the portfolio of education (that is, he has charge of the documents, etc., connected with that department); he has received the port folio of the home department. [F.