| 单词 | street porter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreet porter street porter n. now historical a porter employed to lift or carry heavy packages in the street (in early use = ticket-porter n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of wine-porter1580 street porter1606 tackle-house porter1606 tackle-porter1607 sealed porter1631 ticket-porter1646 tub-woman1660 keep-door1682 Suisse1763 bamboo-coolie1800 hop-porter1812 plyer1826 night porter1841 fellowship1864 hall-porter1883 mobber1892 redcap1903 badgeman1904 bummaree1954 1606 Act Common-Council London 27 June in H. Mayhew London Labour (1861) III. 365/1 Tackle-house porter, porter-packer of the gooddes of English merchants, streete-porter, or porter to the packer for the said citie for strangers' goods. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. v. 4 I glanc'd an Eye at ev'ry Body,..Oyster-Whores fighting, School-Boys scrambling, Street Porters running, Rascals batt'ling. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 128 If, as Addison complains, you sometimes see a street-porter staggering under his load on spindle-shanks. 2002 S. R. Christianson in R. B. Browne et al. Detective as Historian 198 An eighteenth-century detective who, as a watchman, is..able to capitalize on his close contact with criminals, beggars, street porters, thief-catchers. < as lemmas |
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