[pawr-ter, pohr-] 
| 1. | a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel. |
| 2. | a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc. |
| 3. | an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car. |
[pawr-ter, pohr-] | a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature. |
[pawr-ter, pohr-] | 1. | Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer. |
| 2. | David, 1780–1843, U.S. naval officer. |
| 3. | his son, David Dix⋅on [dik-suhn] , 1813–91, Union naval officer in the Civil War. |
| 4. | Edwin Stanton, 1870–1941, U.S. film director. |
| 5. | Gene (Gene Stratton Porter), 1868–1924, U.S. novelist. |
| 6. | Sir George, 1920–2002, British chemist: Nobel prize 1967. |
| 7. | Katherine Anne, 1890–1980, U.S. writer. |
| 8. | Noah, 1811–92, U.S. educator, writer, and lexicographer. |
| 9. | Rodney Robert, 1917–85, British biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1972. |
| 10. | William Sydney (“O. Henry”), 1862–1910, U.S. short-story writer. |
| 11. | a male given name. |
[pawrt, pohrt] | 1. | the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft, facing forward. |
| 2. | pertaining to or designating port. |
| 3. | located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft. |
| 4. | to turn or shift to the port, or left, side. |
[os-tee-er-ee] | 1. | Also called doorkeeper, porter. Roman Catholic Church.
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| 2. | a doorkeeper, as of a church. |
| por·ter 1 (pôr'tər, pōr'-) n.
[Middle English portour, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin portātor, from Latin portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| por·ter 2 (pôr'tər, pōr'-) n. Chiefly British One in charge of a gate or door. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin portārius, from Latin porta, gate; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| por·ter 3 (pôr'tər, pōr'-) n. A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature. [Short for porter's ale.] |
| Por·ter (pôr'tər, pōr'-) American composer and lyricist remembered for his witty and sophisticated Broadway scores for musicals such as Anything Goes (1929). |
| Porter, Edwin Stanton 1869-1941. American filmmaker whose works include the first edited film, The Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery (both 1903). |
| Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980. American writer known for her carefully crafted short stories as well as her novel Ship of Fools (1962). She won a Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Stories (1965). |
| Porter, Rodney Robert 1917-1985. British biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies. |
| Porter, William Sydney Pen name O. Henry 1862-1910. American writer whose short stories are collected in a number of volumes, including Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906). |
Porter Por·ter (pôr'tər), Rodney Robert. Born 1917.
British biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for his research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies.
Porter
a gate-keeper (2 Sam. 18:26; 2 Kings 7:10; 1 Chr. 9:21; 2 Chr. 8:14). Of the Levites, 4,000 were appointed as porters by David (1 Chr. 23:5), who were arranged according to their families (26:1-19) to take charge of the doors and gates of the temple. They were sometimes employed as musicians (1 Chr. 15:18).
