Ticket-porter

Quick meaning: Ticket-porter is a noun meaning (now historical) A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.

Meaning

(now historical) A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.

Example Sentences

[H]is servant put in his hand a packet, which had been delivered by a ticket-porter at the door.

You could hear the ticket-porter, who lolls about Shepherd’s Inn, as he passed on the flags under the archway: the clink of his boot-heels was noted by everybody.

Around 2,000 or more ticket porters, their names stamped on a metal ticket hung from their belts, were authorised to ply for hire at one of ninety-two stands about the quays and in the streets.

[T]he production of a certificate to the governor of the said society of tackle-house and ticket-porters for the time being, from the clerk of the company to which such porter belongs, of such bond having been duly entered into by such porter, should be deemed and taken to be fully sufficient.

Word Forms

• ticket-porters

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include portress, tackle-porter, porteress, ostiary, porter, underporter.

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