Crossword-Solution: GUNPORT 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

You just get the canvas on her." "Aye." He reached up and seized a notch beneath a gunport, pulling the longboat under the deadeyes that supported the mainmast shrouds.

Though a rope ladder dangled from the gunwales, the seamen preferred to grasp the dead-eyes, easing themselves onto the raised gunport lids, and from there dropping the last few feet into the pinnace.

Full on the massive ramparts of the city, tufted with weeds and blackened by the smoke of years, fell that sudden glow, revealing the strong embrasures that stretched away into far obscurity, the grim bastel-house close by, with its deep-mouthed gunport and peering culverin—on the ivied aisles of Mary’s lonely kirk—on the shattered tower of the Dominicans—and displaying even for a gleam the distant woods of Merchiston.

Now the beams played upon a gaping gunport, its weapon still thrust aggressively forward, as if to repel an attack from above.