Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

[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.

If Goods are to be brought Home to your ovvn Houſe, there are Charges for VVeighage, Cranage, Porterage, VVharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c. […] Porterage, is the paying the Porters at the VVaterſide, for loading, unloading, vveighing, craning, &c.

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.

When parties talk about the cost of applying the railway system to the docks, it would be well for them to consider the cost of not applying it. […] How large an amount of expense is now incurred for cartage and porterage which might be saved by the employment of a different system?

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).

He [George Mallory] went down with [Charles Granville] Bruce and [Andrew] Irvine that same day to Camp III, intent on investigating afresh with Bruce's aid the question of available porterage. It was found just possible to collect together sufficient men, who were not indisposed, to carry up oxygen supplies for such an attempt.

Novv, the parts in man that may be called the Porters, and vvhich bear the burdens that are carried, can be no other than the Scapula, and its Acromion, vvhich is the part upon vvhich the burden is pitched; and the back bone vvhich is the part that gives the greateſt ſtrength tovvards the bearing of it, both vvhich, vvhen age hath much enfeebled a man, become unſerviceable as unto thoſe ends, theſe Porters do novv become a porterage themſelves, and thoſe parts that vvere vvont to bear the greateſt burdens, are novv ſo great a burden themſelves, that the man ſtoops under them, and is ſcarce able to bear them.

Boatage, and Porterage to the VVare-houſe

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• porterages

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