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porter: see beer beer, alcoholic beverage made by brewing and fermenting cereals, especially malted barley, usually with the addition of hops as a flavoring agent and stabilizer. One of the oldest of alcoholic beverages (there is archaeological evidence dating to c.3000 B.C.
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porter1
US and Canadian a railway employee who waits on passengers, esp in a sleeper
porter2
RC Church a person ordained to what was formerly the lowest in rank of the minor orders
porter3
Brit a dark sweet ale brewed from black malt
Porter
1. Cole. 1893--1964, US composer and lyricist of musical comedies. His most popular songs include Night and Day and Let's do It
2. George, Baron Porter of Luddenham. 1920--2002, British chemist, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on flash photolysis
3. Katherine Anne. 1890--1980, US short-story writer and novelist. Her best-known collections of stories are Flowering Judas (1930) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
4. Peter. born 1929, Australian poet, living in Britain
5. Rodney Robert. 1917--85, British biochemist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1972 for determining the structure of an antibody


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In the reign of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, there lived at Bagdad a porter who, in spite of his humble calling, was an intelligent and sensible man.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
He had not been there long, when Porter arrived in the frigate Essex, bringing in a number of stout London whalers as prizes, having made a sweeping cruise in the Pacific.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Half an hour later, the porter tells me that a rough-looking man with a beard called with a note for Godfrey.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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