Lexicographical Neighbors of Porers
Literary usage of Porers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... shocked by the indecency if the spectacle of two enormous porers, (such were
her very words) ex- ii bit ing themselves stripped before wenty thousand ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Hookworms arc now almost exclusively known in the secondary and derivative meaning
of the word as porers over dry bunks ; but there was a time when ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1797)
"Of the multitudinous porers in black literature, Tyrwhitt by his edition of
Chaucer, and Steevens by his edition of Shakspeare, have rendered a permanent ..."
4. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"Truly, I think such language ' well becoming in the lips of your porers over
title-deeds—your fustian sleeved ..."
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