Definitions
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- n. Plural form of porter.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of porter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By day, people and goods flow across the border, often with porters of one nation handing packages across the border to porters from the other.
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The best place to organize guides and porters is the Mount Kenya Chogoria Guides & porters Association (Tel 064-22096) at the Transit Motel near Chogoria Village.
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Equally enthralling are the dozen characters whose lives intersect with hers — actors, immigrants, jailbirds, train porters, prostitutes, constables, woodsmen.
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And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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Then she called the porters and said to them, "How came you to let the king's men enter my house, without my leave!"
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12: 007: 011 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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A couple of our porters were also suffering from the height, and Pasang, our Sherpa sirdar (leader), was worried.
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Livingstone believes that breaking the bargaining power of the porters is the first step in closing or moving the market, to sell the expensive land adjoining Canary Wharf.
Billingsgate fish market: 'There is a way of life here and it is being destroyed'
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Lam was also sure none of the porters was a high-ranking cadre.
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