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Porter

noun

A person employed to carry luggage and supplies.

Someone who guards an entrance. Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary.

United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980). Synonym: Katherine Anne Porter.

United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946). Synonyms: Cole Albert Porter, Cole Porter.

United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910). Synonyms: O. Henry, William Sydney Porter.

A railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars). Synonym: Pullman porter.

A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley. Synonym: porter's beer.

verb

Carry luggage or supplies.

Port

adjective

Located on the left side of a ship or aircraft. Synonym: larboard.

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"Porter" Quotes from Famous Books

... stood with shining eyes and breath that came and went quickly through parted lips. Then, as the porter shouted in stentorian tones, "New Yawk—all out!" they moved half dazedly through the crowd and out on the great platform, where the din half ...

— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... timorously through into the square, empty, gas-lit hall, and looked round her with distaste. The place struck her as very ugly and forlorn, utterly lacking in what she had always taken to be the amenities of flat life—an obsequious porter, a lift, ...

— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... her that after all there was nothing now left to her but to return to Middleton. She hurried up to the railway station, and asked when the next train would start. A porter, who was standing just inside the station informed her that the last train for Middleton had ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... house, but there my progress stopped. Mrs. Ocumpaugh had already been interviewed by five reporters and a special agent from the New York police. She could see no one else at present. If, however, my business was of importance, an opportunity would be given me to see Miss Porter. Miss Porter was her companion ...

— The Millionaire Baby • Anna Katharine Green

... Agricultural Engine with Return Flue Boiler in use. Send for circular to Porter MFG. ...

— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various

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