porter
/ˈpɔɹtɚ/ noun C2- A person in control of the entrance to a building.
- An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
Plural porters
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The Cock, suspecting his civilities, said: “Sir, I wish you would do me the favour of going around to the hollow trunk below me, and waking my porter, so that he may open the door and let you in.” When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him, and tore him to pieces.
They don’t seem to have taken any very particular stock of him; but still the porter, the clerk, and the chambermaid are all agreed that this about covers the points.
On another occasion an old white-haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform.
I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest, who was endeavouring to make a porter understand, in his broken English, that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris.
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