See porterage on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1680, [Francis Kirkman], “An Account and Character of Such who Went with Me in Our Voyage to a Plantation, […]”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Fourth Part. […], London: […] Francis Kirkman, and are to be sold by William Rands […], →OCLC, page 150:",
"text": "[T]he Gallant was ready punctually at his hour with three or four Porters, by the help of whom he quickly removed all the choice Goods or any that were worth Porterage to a place appointed.",
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"ref": "1738, William Markham, “Part VII. Waterside Business, &c.”, in A General Introduction to Trade and Business. Or, The Young Merchant’s and Tradesman‘s Magazine. […], London: […] A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch […], and J[ames] Hodges […], →OCLC, page 192:",
"text": "If Goods are to be brought Home to your ovvn Houſe, there are Charges for VVeighage, Cranage, Porterage, VVharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c. […] Porterage, is the paying the Porters at the VVaterſide, for loading, unloading, vveighing, craning, &c.",
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"text": "Shipt, from Spain, 10 tuns of vvine, at 10 l [pounds] ſterling per hhd [hogshead]: payd, cuſtom at the port of London, 1 s [shilling] per gallon; the carriage, for lighterage, cartage, and porterage, amounted to 5 l.",
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"text": "When parties talk about the cost of applying the railway system to the docks, it would be well for them to consider the cost of not applying it. […] How large an amount of expense is now incurred for cartage and porterage which might be saved by the employment of a different system?",
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"ref": "1990, Jacob Milgrom, “The Second Levite Census”, in Nahum M[attathias] Sarna, editor, Numbers = במדבר [Ba-midbar]: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation (The JPS Torah Commentary), Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "The specific job of the Kohathites is the porterage of the most sacred objects (enumerated in vv. 5–15) by shoulder (4:15; 7:9).",
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"text": "Novv, the parts in man that may be called the Porters, and vvhich bear the burdens that are carried, can be no other than the Scapula, and its Acromion, vvhich is the part upon vvhich the burden is pitched; and the back bone vvhich is the part that gives the greateſt ſtrength tovvards the bearing of it, both vvhich, vvhen age hath much enfeebled a man, become unſerviceable as unto thoſe ends, theſe Porters do novv become a porterage themſelves, and thoſe parts that vvere vvont to bear the greateſt burdens, are novv ſo great a burden themſelves, that the man ſtoops under them, and is ſcarce able to bear them.",
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"ref": "1787 June, Tench Coxe, “An Enquiry into the Principles, on which a Commercial System for the United States of America should be Founded; […]”, in The American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical, 2nd edition, volume I, number VI, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Mathew Carey, published 1788, →OCLC, page 437, column 2:",
"text": "The neareſt rivals of our manufacturers, are thoſe of Europe, vvho are ſubjected to the follovving charges in bringing their goods into our market: […] porterages, freight, insurance, damage, intereſt of money, vvaſte, and loſs on exchange.",
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"ref": "1872, John Ruskin, “Letter XIX”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume II, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 1–2:",
"text": "Fancy, then, the packing, and peeping into the packages, and porterages, and percentages on porterages; and the engineering, and the tunnelling, and the bridge-building, and the steam whistling, and the grinding of iron, and the raising of dust in the Limousin ([Jean-François] Marmontel's country), and in Burgundy, and in Savoy, and under the Mont Cenis, and in Piedmont, and in Lombardy, and at last over the field of Solferino, to fetch me my bottle of diaphanous mustard!",
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"text": "Further information on the reverse of the list of connections advised us that the labels tied to our baggage entitled us to free porterage at Basle SBB station (normally this is charged at a regulation scale); […]",
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"text": "Shipt, from Spain, 10 tuns of vvine, at 10 l [pounds] ſterling per hhd [hogshead]: payd, cuſtom at the port of London, 1 s [shilling] per gallon; the carriage, for lighterage, cartage, and porterage, amounted to 5 l.",
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"text": "When parties talk about the cost of applying the railway system to the docks, it would be well for them to consider the cost of not applying it. […] How large an amount of expense is now incurred for cartage and porterage which might be saved by the employment of a different system?",
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"text": "Novv, the parts in man that may be called the Porters, and vvhich bear the burdens that are carried, can be no other than the Scapula, and its Acromion, vvhich is the part upon vvhich the burden is pitched; and the back bone vvhich is the part that gives the greateſt ſtrength tovvards the bearing of it, both vvhich, vvhen age hath much enfeebled a man, become unſerviceable as unto thoſe ends, theſe Porters do novv become a porterage themſelves, and thoſe parts that vvere vvont to bear the greateſt burdens, are novv ſo great a burden themſelves, that the man ſtoops under them, and is ſcarce able to bear them.",
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