portmote means A court, or mote, held in a port town. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English portemot, portemote, portmot, portmote; equivalent to port + mote; compare Anglo-Latin portimōtus.
noun
- A court, or mote, held in a port town.“And in England it hath always been held, that the king is lord of the whole shore, and particularly is the guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates of the realm: and therefore, so early as the reign of king John, we find ships seised by the king's officers for putting in at a place that was not a legal port. These legal ports were undoubtedly at first assigned by the crown;”