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ticket-porters

ticket-porters is the plural of ticket-porter.

Meaning of ticket-porter

Noun

ticket-porter (plural ticket-porters)

  1. (historical) A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.
    • [H]is servant put in his hand a packet, which had been delivered by a ticket-porter at the door.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 83, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Questions about ticket-porters

What is ticket-porters the plural of?
Ticket-porters is the plural of ticket-porter.

Words near ticket-porters in the dictionary

  1. ticket-holders
  2. ticket-inspector
  3. ticket-inspectors
  4. ticket-of-leave
  5. ticket-porter
  6. ticket-porters
  7. ticket-puncher
  8. ticket-punchers
  9. ticket-stamping machine
  10. ticket-stamping machines
  11. ticketable

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