Chaucer, Troilus

1139. Bar but your Gate, and let your Porter cry Here's no Admittance. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. Porter's lodge, a room or cottage near an entrance door or gate for the use of the keeper. porter2 (porter), n. [ Simon of Cyrene is forced to be the porter of Thy cro . Bp . Hall , Contemplations, V. 343. On the Fourth of July, at five o'clock in the morning, the porters called the sleepers out of their berths at Wickford Junction. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 84. 2. A law officer who carries a white or silver rod before the justices in eyre. [Eng.] -3. Eccles., same as ostiary. - 4. That which is used in bearing, supporting, or carrying. (at) A lever. Withals. (b) A bar of iron attached to a heavy forging, by which it is guided beneath the hammer or into the furnace, being suspended by chains from a crane above; also, a bar from whose end an article is forged. E. H. Knight. (c) In agri., a light two or three-wheeled carriage used in steam-plowing to hold up from the ground the wire rope by which the plows are drawn. (d) In weaving, a term used in Scotland to denote twenty splits or dents in the reed, in plain work. In England called a beer. - Porter's knot. See knot1. IMG:content-0678.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0679.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0680.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0681.png:[blocks in formation] shadow. See omen , porterage