apporter

[Fr. apporter = to bring, to convey; Ital apport are; Lat. apporto = to bring or carry to: ad to, and por to = to carry ( spec., something heavy).] One who imports or carries anything (into the country). Now IMPORTER (q. V.). "This makes only the apporters themselves, their aiders, abettors and a istants, traitors; not those who receive it at second hand."- Hale : Hist . Pl . Cr., ch. 20.