Someone who has charge of a door or gate, especially at the entrance of a fortified town or of a castle or other large building. A person whose employment is to carry someone else's burdens.
“Like a porter in a great house, ever nearest the door, but seldomest abroad.”
John Donne, Letters (1631).
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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