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A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
- goods porter
- By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
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An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
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One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- […] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.
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A person in control of the entrance to a building.countable
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An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.countable
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A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.countableuncountable
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Stout (malt brew).Irelandcountableuncountable
- ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.
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To serve as a porter; to carry.