Porterage

Quick meaning: Porterage is a noun meaning (uncountable) The carrying or transportation of goods by a porter (“person who carries luggage and related objects”) or other person.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Porters regarded collectively.
2. (uncountable, obsolete, rare) Goods or other things which are carried; burdens.
3. (countable, uncountable) The charge for such carrying or transportation.
4. The occupation of, or services provided by, a porter (“person in control of the entrance to a building”).

Example Sentences

Boatage, and Porterage to the VVare-houſe

The specific job of the Kohathites is the porterage of the most sacred objects (enumerated in vv. 5–15) by shoulder (4:15; 7:9).

[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.

Shipt, from Spain, 10 tuns of vvine, at 10 l [pounds] ſterling per hhd [hogshead]: payd, cuſtom at the port of London, 1 s [shilling] per gallon; the carriage, for lighterage, cartage, and porterage, amounted to 5 l.

Word Forms

• porterages

Synonyms for porterage

Depending on context, synonyms include portage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include portage, carry, freight, cartage, carrying, draggage.

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