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The transportation of burdens by porters
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porterage
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Word definitions for porterage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Porterage \Por"ter*age\, n. The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper. Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The transportation of goods by a porter 2 The charge for this transportation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the charge for carrying burdens by porters the transportation of burdens by porters
Usage examples of porterage.
It was already beyond maternal porterage, and Caddles, staggering indeed, but grinning triumphantly at quantitatively inferior parents, bore it back to the free-sitting occupied by his party.
When they had finished Aboli climbed down to join Hal, and they began the weary porterage of the goods down to where Big Daniel and the other seamen waited.
It is his shibboleth that he is politically equal to the best, that he is independent, and that his labor, though it earn him but a dollar a day by porterage, places him as a citizen on an equal rank with the most wealthy fellow-man that may employ or accost him.
Hawkins, as was put in to look after the vicarage while the Reverend Fraser was away, told me last night how as she had got a telegraft the sight of which, she said, knocked her all faint like, till she turned just as yellow as the cover, to say nothing of fourand-six porterage, the which, however, she intends to recover from the Reverend--Lord, where was I?
At the side men and boys drive the flocks and herds, while as often as not the elder women-folk take a full share in the porterage of their property.
Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.
He had been informed by his sister, when she answered his letter of acceptance, that there would be porterage for suitcases if those were left on a wooden platform at the foot of the cliffs.
You come in through a grand reception area with marble floors and twenty-four hour porterage, step into a big mirror and marble elevator, and get out onto a large landing that serves just two apartments.
Like the other men in the house, he knew of the carrying to and fro of the great chest, and had got it into his head that the care exercised in its porterage indicated that it was full of great treasure.
Like the other men in the house, he knew of the carrying to and fro of the great chest, and had got it into his head that the care exercised in its porterage indicated that it was full of treasure.