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单词 porch
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porchn.

Brit. /pɔːtʃ/, U.S. /pɔrtʃ/
Forms: Middle English poorche, Middle English–1600s porche, Middle English– porch, 1500s portche, 1500s pourche, 1600s peorch, 1600s porsh, 1600s portch; Scottish pre-1700 porche, pre-1700 portch, pre-1700 portche, pre-1700 proche, pre-1700 1700s– porch.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French porche.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French porche (French porche ) vestibule, covered structure in front of the entrance of a building (end of 11th cent. in Rashi) < classical Latin porticus porticus n. Compare post-classical Latin porchia (from 1232 in British sources). Compare portico n. and the Romance parallels cited at that entry. Compare also earlier portic n.In sense 3 after ancient Greek στοὰ, more fully ποικίλη στοὰ the Painted Porch (see Poecile n.); compare Hellenistic Greek οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς στοᾶς, οἱ ἐκ τῆς στοᾶς those of the porch, i.e. Stoic philosophers.
1.
a. Originally: an exterior structure forming a covered approach to the entrance of a building. In later use also: an interior space serving as a vestibule or hallway.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > porch
porticeOE
porchc1300
back porch1535
prothyrum1600
propylaeum1637
pentastich1656
propylon1830
ramada1869
storm-porch1879
c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Laud) 158 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 381 Est-ward þe dore and þe porche.
c1330 St. Mary Magdalene (Auch.) 116 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 164 (MED) Into an old porche þai ȝede, Þat stode toforn a mannes hous.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 225 (MED) I hym seigh as I satte in my porche.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 235 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 200 No stynkyng flesshe myht in the poorche abyde.
1469 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 333 (MED) Swyne..destroyth gardines and wrotith in porchis of the citeseynes houses.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 257/1 Portche of waynscot, conterquayre.
1576 G. Gascoigne tr. Pope Innocent III 1st Bk. Vewe Worldly Vanities in Droomme of Doomes Day i. sig. D iiiiv To furnish the halls, to hange the porches and lobbetts.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V6 Of hewen stone the porch was fayrely wrought.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1646) 107 The Ethiopian and Moscovites doe baptize in the Church porch.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 99 If a Portch be affected, let it then be a vaste Portuco.
1685 in W. Cramond Church of Cullen (1883) 165 The said Thomas is to vork ane porch at the entrie of the said pewes.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant 29/1 Their Law expresly enjoyns them to put off their Pabouches or Slippers at the Porch of the Mosque.
1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 63 The cathedral has a handsome modern porch.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xvi. 176 The church was old and gray, with ivy clinging to the walls, and round the porch.
1898 G. B. Shaw Candida i. 80 The parsonage is semi~detached, with a front garden and a porch.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iv. 189 He pushed open the latchless door of the porch and passed through the naked hallway into the kitchen.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 16 It has..four tall windows on the ground floor, with a glass-roofed porch in the centre, and five steps, flanked by low stone balustrades, leading up to it.
1980 R. McCrum In Secret State vii. 60 He returned to the porch, unlocked the front door and stepped inside.
2003 Holiday Which? Spring 101/3 Identical rows of red-brick Victorian terraces with hanging baskets in porches and ornamental figurines in the windows.
b. figurative.
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1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 64 Vpon my secure houre Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona..and through the porches of my eares Did powre the leaprous distilment.
1611 B. Jonson Catiline i. sig. B4v Not Infants, in the porch of life were free. View more context for this quotation
1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles Introd. 12 But I stay too long in the Porch.
1746 J. Wesley Let. 17 June II. 268 The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.
1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 6 Expulse hereditary aggregates..which may..obthurate the porches of your intelligence.
1866 B. Taylor Passing Sirens 222 It penetrates The guarded porches of the brain.
1918 T. E. Lawrence Let. 15 July (1938) 244 This is a very long porch to explain why I'm always trying to blow up railway trains and bridges.
2.
a. A portico, covered colonnade, cloister, or the like. Now rare (but see also senses 2b and 3).In relation to the Ottoman Empire, occasionally formerly used of the Sublime Porte; cf. Porte n.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse
doom-housec1000
speech-housec1050
tolsel1373
porcha1382
pleading house1440
courthouse1483
plead housec1485
pleading place1565
law-housea1610
county hall1670
judiciary1681
Palais de Justice1792
plea-house1818
doom-hall1870
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > portico
porcha1382
oriel1478
portico1607
porticus1617
peridrome1623
portice1623
exedra1706
lodge1742
loggia1742
chabutra1827
portal1844
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Kings vi. 36 He bildide þe porche [a1425 L.V. a large street; L. atrium] with inne forth with þre ordres of pulscht stones.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) xlii. 3 Aȝeinus the pament pauyd with stoon of the vtmer hous..was a porche [L. porticus] ioynyd to treble porche.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Chron. iii. 4 He bildide a porche bifor the frount, that was stretchid forth along bisidis the mesure of the breede of the hows.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 1252 A porche, bilt of square stonys, Ful myghtely enarched envyroun, wher the domys and plees of the toun weren execut and lawes of the kyng.
a1475 St. Mary Magdalene (Durh.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 91 213 (MED) Thei dwellid in a porche [L. porticu] that was before a tempul of the pepul of that cuntre.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. xii. 102 At the porchis [L. porticibus; Ruddiman portis] or clostir of Iuno.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xxi. 26 b [A] square place enuironed with..pillers in two ranks after the manner of a porch.
1599 R. Hakluyt tr. Murad Khan Let. in Princ. Navigations II. i. 143 Elizabeth Queene of England, France and Ireland..sent her letters..vnto our stately and most magnificent Porch replenished with iustice.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 125 They stay for me In Pompeyes Porch: for now this fearefull Night, There is no stirre, or walking in the streetes. View more context for this quotation
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 31 A Gallery or very wide vaulted Porch, runs all round the Court.
1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece I. i. i. 2 There is..a long porch, which serves as a market-place, for those who dwell near the sea.
1891 L. Dyer Stud. Gods in Greece App. VI. 310 The whole of its northern side probably, and certainly the whole of its southern side, consisted of a long porch. [Note] I use porch here..in the sense of stoa or porticus.
1916 J. H. Breasted Anc. Times xv. 351 The door led into a court open to the sky and surrounded by a porch with columns.
b. Originally and chiefly North American. A veranda.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > verandah
veranda1711
piazza1724
stoop1755
stoep1797
porch1819
lanai1823
pial1869
screen porch1889
pendopo1927
sleep-out1941
1819 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1 Sept. Mallory was lying in his porch, at noon, supposed to be asleep, when Davenport came up, and stabbed him.
1840 H. Malcom Trav. 43/1 About twenty or thirty patients, mostly Chinese, meet daily in his porch at four o'clock.
1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 99 A country house without a porch is like a man without an eyebrow.
1901 S. E. White Westerners 251 Then there was the gambler, the faro man, who sat on the hotel ‘porch’.
1932 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 193/2 Broad porches ran the length of the house on both sides.
1976 C. W. Eneas Bain Town i. 6 Each house had a verandah—or as we called it—a porch. If the ground was large enough, this went on two sides of the house, and I have known some that had porches on three sides.
2000 Kenyon Rev. Summer–Fall 75 My wife and I would eat mashed potatoes from the pot and lie out on the porch smoking reefer until it got too dark to see.
c. North American regional (chiefly New England and Newfoundland). A small utility room attached to the back of a house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms
house of officec1405
officesa1422
sculleryc1440
office-house1632
porch1878
utility room1953
utility area1969
utility1976
1878 E. White Jrnl. 10 Sept. in G. M. Story et al. Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 387/1 2 Porches Back of House.
1892 Dial. Notes 1 210 Porch, the ‘L’ of a house.
1902 Dial. Notes 2 242 Porch, any kind of platform about a doorway, whether roofed or not. Sometimes an out-room for general purposes is called a porch.
1929 Amer. Speech 5 124 ‘Piazzer’ was the only term applied to a veranda [sc. in the dialect of Maine]. The ‘porch’ was a sort of extra shed-kitchen used as a laundry.
1969 in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 211 The ‘porch’ is a small room at the rear of the house used for storing wood, hanging coats, cooking utensils, and so on. A door, which is always kept closed, leads from the porch into the kitchen.
3. Ancient Greek History. A public ambulatory in the agora of ancient Athens, in which the philosopher Zeno of Citium and his disciples met. Hence also: the Stoic school of philosophy, Stoicism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Stoicism
porch?a1425
portico1579
stoicism1626
porticusa1682
stoicalness1727
Zenonism1789
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 215 (MED) Stoici hadde þat name of a porche [L porticu] of Athene þat hatte stoa in þe longage of Grees, were ynne were i-peynt þe grete beryinge of wise men.]
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. met. iv. 1 The porche (that is to seyn, a gate of the toun of Athenis there as philosophris hadden hir congregacioun to desputen)—thilke porche broughte somtyme olde men, ful dirke in hir sentences (that is to seyn, philosophris that hyghten Stoyciens).
1528 T. Wyatt tr. Plutarch Quyete of Mynde sig. b viij Fortune..thou doest very wel with me, that driues me to myn old cloke, and to the porche of philosophy.
1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 101 They commended the ingenuity of the ancient Schools and Porch.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 132 Specially from Plato's Academie; some also from Zeno's porch.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xlviii Ev'n there he forgets not the Precepts of the Porch.
1751 J. Brown Ess. Characteristics 160 In the same high style of the Athenian porch, he passeth judgment on the hopes of the religious.
1832 A. Johnson tr. W. G. Tennemann Man. Hist. Philos. 151 Bold and uncompromising Dogmatism..prevailed in the Porch.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 51 The words of a great son of the porch.
1937 R. E. Witt Albinus & Hist. Middle Platonism viii. 105 Treatises on Plato's philosophy could be written by those who professed allegiance to the Porch.
1997 P. G. Walsh in tr. Cicero Nature of Gods (1998) p. xxix Cicero cites Cleanthes, the second head of the Porch, as the originator of the four arguments.
4. English regional (northern). A transept or side chapel in a church. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > transept > [noun]
cross aisle1451
porch1522
transepta1552
plage1593
cross1658
society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chapel > [noun]
chapelc1330
porch1522
by-chapel1562
sacellum1806
1522 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 105 My body to be buried in the Churche of Kellowe in my Porch of or Ladye.
1613 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 167 Rec. of Mr Robert Hilyard for the halfe part of the portch in the North Allye, which part Mr Hilyard did new build of his owne cost..ij s.
1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham III. 151 On the north side is a porch, in which lie the tombs of Conyers.
1893 C. Hodges in Reliquary Jan. 5 The term porch is used for a transept or chapel in the north of England to the present day.
5. Billiards. Apparently: = port n.3 4a. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > part of table
porch1699
balk1800
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pass,..a Term of Billiards, when the Ball goes through the Court or Porch, it is said to pass.
6.
a. Mining. English regional (northern). An arched entrance to a gallery or tunnel where it leaves a mineshaft. Now rare.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 192 Porch, the arching at the pit bottom inset.
a1903 S. J. Chadwick in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 584/2 [Yorkshire] At the bottom of the shaft Dick and I made a porch for about 6 yards... From the end of the porch I cleared out and packed an old bord.
b. Astronautics. A small platform outside the hatch of a spacecraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > parts of spacecraft > [noun] > platform outside hatch
porch1969
1969 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) (Nexis) 19 Jan. a11 Flight plans call for the 33-year-old space rookie to climb out the front hatch of the moon lander and stand on its little metal porch for almost two hours.
1972 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 24 Apr. 3/6 They..used a clothesline-like arrangement to transfer them to the front porch of the lunar module Orion.
1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 1 Dec. 8 a Outer space experiments will be staged on the ‘back porch’, which is attached to the Japanese experimental module.
7. Television. In a video signal: either of the two periods of line blanking immediately before and after the line-synchronizing pulse (in full front porch, back porch respectively).
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > signals, types, or parts of
picture frequency1926
picture signal1927
black level1935
line frequency1936
pedestal1937
line scan1938
picture black1938
white level1938
porch1941
test signal1945
spot wobble1950
luminance1953
1941 Proc. IRE 29 307/1 The difference between 0·06H and 0·07H, namely 1 per cent of H, is the ‘front porch’ of the pedestal.
1953 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. ii. 32 The period of blanking level immediately following the line-sync signal..is termed the back porch.
1984 J. Dunlop & D. G. Smith Telecommunications Engin. xi. 361 In the absence of the front porch the time taken for the video signal to drop to the triggering level would vary with the amplitude of the luminance signal just before the leading edge of the synchronizing pulse.
1992 IEEE Trans. Broadcasting 38 19 Either algorithm used in a hybrid clamping arrangement results in..the ability to tie the back porch or sync tip to a predetermined digital output code.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
porch door n.
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c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 349 Þer was made abown þe porch-dure many ymagis of stone.
1698 tr. J. de la Bruyère Moral Char. Theophrastus 30 He asks his Wife if his Chest be close shut, his Trunk well lockt, and care taken to make the Porch door fast.
1818 Times 30 Nov. 2/4 A subaltern's guard of infantry must mount at the porch-door, and be responsible to keep all that space clear from interruption.
1986 G. Story Black Swan i. 12 She pulled the cart back up by the porch door and lined it up along the right-hand wall.
porch gable n.
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1855 Ecclesiologist 16 337 A part of this porch-gable was to be erected in 1854.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 100/2 Gables are common and often include a large porch gable.
porch light n.
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1896 Boston Daily Globe 12 Oct. 8/2 A ruby porch-light flooded him with a kind of delighted confusion.
1996 New Yorker 19 Aug. 62/1 They're squatting on the outside stoop, under a bug-speckled porch light.
porch pillar n.
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1855 Ld. Tennyson Daisy in Maud & Other Poems 140 Porch-pillars on the lion resting, And sombre, old, colonnaded aisles.
2003 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 5 Oct. 4 z A flag and flag pole worth a combined $50 were stolen Sept. 25 from a porch pillar in the 1200 block of Arthur Ave.
porch post n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > other supporting members
studeOE
bracket1574
prick post1587
cantilever?1677
stud piece1799
squinch1840
main couple1842
veranda pillar1852
porch post1871
mushroom1907
poupou1921
1871 Manufacturer & Builder Jan. 20/2 Section of porch-post, which is a 6-inch square, boxed post, with splayed corners and moulded base.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1766/2 Porch-post Support, a casting placed between the foot of a post and the floor of a porch to prevent decay of the two at that point.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 12/7 It is difficult to imagine a man over 60 shinnying up a porch post.
2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 18 Slung between two porch-posts was a woven hammock.
porch rail n.
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1853 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 10 Sept. 1/2 He..seated himself on the porch rail, with the old mare's bridle over his arm.
1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvi. 36 As the cat walked the porch rail at Gardone.
1991 L. Cary Black Ice Epil. 223 We sprayed ourselves from cans of repellent that the reunion organizers had wisely stationed every couple of feet along the porch rail.
porch roof n.
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1828 F. D. Hemans Records of Woman 139 Stern fugitives from that wild battle-glen, Scaring the ringdoves from the porch-roof, bore A wounded Warrior in.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xliii. 448 This porch-roof is composed of tremendous slabs of stone.
1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 65/1 They spend so much of their day outdoors, in the season, that years ago they installed an outside phone-bell under the porch-roof overhang.
porch seat n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Porche seate, præstega.
1874 Catholic World Sept. 798/1 Just outside, laid on the porch seat, a basin filled with sprigs of box-wood.
2001 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 7 Oct. j14 The porch seat gives the moms a perch where they can keep an eye on the kids while they're playing.
porch-tomb n. Obsolete rare
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1880 Archaeologia Cantiana 13 377 This porch-tomb's canopy is handsomely carved.
porch tower n.
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1705 S. Mather Figures or Types Old Test. 352 The Porch-tower being One Hundred and Twenty Cubits high, was about One Hundred and Eighty Foot high.
1869 J. H. Parker Conc. Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 205 They have sometimes rooms over them, and are carried up as many stories in height as the rest of the building, and this projection is called the porch tower.
2002 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 25 May 48 The porch tower with its pyramid roof, the unusual central tower and thatched roof was designed by William Lethaby in 1901.
porch trellis n.
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1844 Republican (Gettysburg, Pa.) 22 Jan. 1/1 Where the porch trellis bent, and the eglantine's weight.
1978 S. King Stand xlii. 478 The climbing ivy on the porch trellis was mostly dead.
C2.
porch chair n. originally and chiefly North American a chair of a type suitable for use on a porch or veranda; esp. a wicker or cane armchair.
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1876 ‘M. Adeler’ Elbow-room xxiii. 288 He was out, and I sat down on the porch chair to wait for him.
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 753/2 Folding porch chair, made of wood frame with denim body.
2004 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 4 July 7 f I pulled up a porch chair and enjoyed the show.
porch climber n. slang (chiefly North American) a burglar.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun] > cat-burglar
dancer1864
portico thief1870
porch climber1883
second-story man1886
climber1900
cat burglar1907
1883 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 24 Nov. The perpetrators of that job consider themselves several degrees above ‘porch-climbers’ who rob dwelling houses.
1927 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 180/1 The depredations of porch-climbers, safe-blowers,..and common thieves were a source of alarm.
1995 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 24 Aug. 3 All the killers, robbers, rapists, burglars, porch climbers and assorted fiends who roam the streets.
porch-climbing n. and adj. slang (chiefly North American) (a) n. burglary; (b) adj. engaged in burglary.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [adjective]
burglarious1769
porch-climbing1891
walk-in1912
1891 in Chicago Tribune (1892) 2 Mar. 2/1 I was lead [sic] away and given a lesson in transom and porch climbing.
1895 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 28 May It was a genuine porch climbing burglars' outfit, but had evidently never been used.
1912 Collier's 28 Dec. 15/3 Beware of the beautiful ladies who have porch-climbing, safe-blowing pals.
1946 E. Sedgwick Happy Profession (1948) x. 127 There is usually pocket-picking to begin with or just snitching from a pushcart, then a bit of porch climbing while the family is at supper.
2004 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 June (Spectrum) 10 Keefer's choice is inspired. Indeed, I was left wondering why no other porch-climbing novelist had been here.
porch pirate n. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) a person who steals parcels that have been delivered and left unattended outside the intended recipient's home, business, etc.
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2007 Global Broadcast Database: 4 KFOR (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 1 Aug. Police say porch pirates have discovered a hidden treasure at your door step.
2015 South Florida Times (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. 8 c Many porch pirates are low tech, simply cruising neighborhoods where they know deliveries are taking place and grabbing the unattended packages.
2022 @KMPHFOX26 19 June in twitter.com (accessed 23 June 2022) Do you know this porch pirate? She was caught on camera stealing a package containing cookware.
porch swing n. originally U.S. a swing seat (usually for two or more people) suspended from the ceiling of a porch or veranda.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > other seats
desk1560
seat-arch1703
window seat1715
podium1722
sunkie1788
stab1805
screen1820
porch swing1891
club-fender1915
stuff-over1915
1891 Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 1 May 4 (advt.) Lawn and Porch Swings.
1942 D. A. Robinson Diary 4 July in It's All in Family (1943) 191 I looked over at her, sitting so quietly on the big porch swing.
1996 Mass. Rev. Summer 269 Aunt Louise's screened in summer house is the place we like best.., swinging on the porch swing that has soft pillows and creaks gently.
porchway n. chiefly British a porch (esp. in sense 1a).
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1852 Times 30 Dec. 6/5 She was standing in the porchway of the house with two other women.
1884 in Harper's Mag. Oct. 703/2 There are..friendly porchways to get under.
1958 A. P. Pearce Tom's Midnight Garden xv. 121 Soon he was over the porchway into the orchard, and then over the vine against the wall.
1990 Illustr. London News Summer No. 38/1 (caption) Through the porchway can be seen the courtyard, with..the statue of George II by John Bacon the Elder.

Derivatives

ˈporchless adj. without a porch.
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1881 T. Hardy Laodicean II. iii. xi. 205 He reached the porchless door.
2004 Boston Globe (Nexis) 24 Dec. b1 South Boston, where many porchless houses nearly meet the street.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
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