Mans the Porter's Lodge, directs visitors, sorts mail and answers questions Porters are more or less omniscient on the topics of College and University life, and are always willing to give advice; but be warned, it's not always of the helpful variety [Oxford]
's dominance (the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) these were chiefly popular in rural areas and among the more prosperous classes
A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature Short for Porter's Ale because the porters of the London street markets were especially fond of it Note that Yuengling's is a beer and is cold lagered in the German style and as such is not a true porter, IT'S BETTER!
A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages
In a hospital, a porter is someone whose job is to move patients from place to place. American filmmaker whose works include the first edited film, The Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery (both 1903). American writer known for her carefully crafted short stories as well as her novel Ship of Fools (1962). She won a Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Stories (1965). British biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies. American writer whose short stories are collected in a number of volumes, including Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906). Bliss William Dwight Porter Ruth Porter Crawford Countee Porter William Sydney Porter Helen Porter Mitchell Porter Cole Albert Porter David Porter David Dixon Porter Fitz John Porter Katherine Anne
Originally a blend of inexpensive mild ale and expensive old or brown ale, this beer gained its name due to its popularity with the market porters of London's 18th and 19th century working class Porters are dark, medium-bodied beers brewed with large amounts of roasted malts balanced by a moderate hop bitterness Porters were the predecessors of the stouts Notable commercial examples include Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter and Anchor Porter "Baltic Porters" are very similar to Imperial Stouts because they were also traditionally exported from Britain to Czarist Russia and the Baltic states A great Baltic porter is Sinebrychoff Porter
{i} one who carries parcels; doorman, concierge; type of dark beer; (British) janitor
a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O