porter (redirected from Porter, Peter (Neville Frederick))

porter: see beer.

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porter¹

US and Canadian a railway employee who waits on passengers, esp in a sleeper

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porter²

RC Church a person ordained to what was formerly the lowest in rank of the minor orders

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porter³

Brit a dark sweet ale brewed from black malt

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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