Porter

By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers

The man who carries your luggage at the station is a "red cap", not a porter. The Canadian porter is the man who makes up the beds in the sleeping cars.

As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.

Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.

[…] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.

‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.