porter

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
porter1

▶noun

• 1 a person employed to carry luggage and other loads.

  ■ (also hospital porter) a hospital employee who moves equipment or patients.

• 2 dark brown bitter beer brewed from malt partly charred or browned by drying at a high temperature.

• 3 N. Amer. a sleeping-car attendant.

– derivatives
porterage noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. porteour, from med. L. portator, from L. portare ‘carry’; sense 2 derives from the beer orig. being made for porters.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
porter2

▶noun Brit. an employee in charge of the entrance of a hotel, block of flats, or other large building.

– origin ME: from OFr. portier, from late L. portarius, from porta ‘gate, door’.