Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cinque Ports \Cinque" Ports`\ [Cinque + port.] (Eng. Hist.)
   Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were
   anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover,
   and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of
   Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.

   {Baron of the Cinque Ports}. See under {Baron}.