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1. A person employed to carry luggage and supplies
    
2. Someone who guards an entrance
   - doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, gatekeeper, ostiary
    
3. A railway employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
   - Pullman porter
    
4. A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
   - porter's beer

1. Carry luggage or supplies
   "They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists"

1. United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)
   - Katherine Anne Porter
    
2. United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)
   - Cole Porter, Cole Albert Porter
    
3. United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
   - William Sydney Porter, O. Henry

Derived forms: portered, portering, porters

Type of: ale, author, carry, composer, employe [US], employee, guard, jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], transport, writer

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