porterage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The carrying or transportation of goods by a porter (“person who carries luggage and related objects”) or other person.

   “[T]he Gallant was ready punctually at his hour with three or four Porters, by the help of whom he quickly removed all the choice Goods or any that were worth Porterage to a place appointed.”

2. isim Porters regarded collectively.
3. isim Goods or other things which are carried; burdens.
4. isim The charge for such carrying or transportation.

   “Boatage, and Porterage to the VVare-houſe”

5. isim The occupation of, or services provided by, a porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”).

   “In rules of Porterage untaught, / Simplicity, not vvorth a groat, / For years had kept the Temple door; / Full on his breaſt a glaſs he vvore, / Thro' vvhich his boſom open lay / To ev'ry one vvho paſs'd that vvay.”