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ˈticket-ˌporter
1. A member of a body of porters in the City of London who were licensed by the Corporation; orig. called street-porters, and distinct from the tackle-house porters of the twelve great Merchant Companies; in later times the two classes of porters were united in the Society of the Tackle-house and Ticket Porters. Now Hist.
1646[see tackle-house b]. 1770New Guide London 257 Ticket-porters are all freemen, and their business is to load and ship off goods exported or imported. Also to house merchants' goods, metals, &c. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames 328 The Ticket-Porters are persons appointed by the City of London... They give Security in 100l. for Fidelity, and have their Names and Numbers on a Metal Badge. 1833(Dec. 12) Rep. Court Com. Council (London) on Porters 4 The Ticket Porters..are entitled to the work or labour of unshipping, landing, carrying, loading, and housing all goods, wares and merchandize imported into the port of London from the several places mentioned in the Act of Common Council, 27th March, 1798, and also of shipping all goods, wares, and merchandize; and they are likewise entitled, by custom and usage, to perform the work at the public markets of this City. Ibid., We were..attended..by the Rulers and Registers of the Society of Tackle-house and Ticket Porters. 1848Dickens Dombey xiii, The ticket⁓porter..always ran officiously before to open Mr. Dombey's office-door.
2. A (railway) porter who collects tickets.
1852Aquatic Notes, Camb. 80 A rush of men takes place from every carriage, and past the ticket-porter. |