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school port
a child's case used for school: He put his schoolbooks into his port.
Contributor's comments: I think it was mainly used by Catholics. Going to boarding school in the sixties we called our luggage, ports. The other boarders, especially those from Protestant schools didn't know what we were talking about. Kids would refer to their heavy 'ports'.
Contributor's comments: Have heard school bags referred to as 'ports' in Maryborough, Qld.
Contributor's comments: "School port" is NOT used throughout NSW. I grew up in Sydney and it was never used there. My dad's family from Newcastle say "Port" to mean any suitcase, so maybe it is restricted to some areas of NSW.
Contributor's comments: We used to our school bags 'ports' in Tannuam Sands QLD. When I moved to NSW for high school, no one had heard of them.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Mackay in the 1960's and we used port to describe a suitcase or school bag.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Brisbane in the 60's, and it was always just called a "Port" - everyone had one!
Contributor's comments: I grew up in south-west Queensland in the 70s and early 80s. We always called our school bags our school ports, there were port racks to put them on outside the classroom. We also called suitcases ports. Both the school port and the larger port were usually of the hard cardboard variety with plastic on each corner.
Contributor's comments: Here in the Southern Riverina - I used a "school case" to carry by books in...yet when we went on holidays, the thing was packed with clothes and called a "suit case!!"