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ticket-porter (複数形 ticket-porters)

1. (now historical) A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter III, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541, page 83:

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

   • 1843, John Scott, Scott's New Reports in the Court of Common Pleas, page 47:

     [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.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 49, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     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.

   • 1884, Report of cases argued and determined in the English courts:

     [H]e, the plaintiff was on the said wharf with divers, to wit, three servants, then being ticket-porters of the said city duly and regularly admitted, and then was ready and willing and offered to unship, land, and carry the said casks of olive oil, and no other tackle-porter belonging to the said city then was present to unship, land, or carry the said casks of olive oil […] .