(UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
(UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
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: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
(British, Irish, India) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
(UK, historical) A lodging outside the college bounds at Oxford or Cambridge.
(chiefly, North America, now, historical) A public house where porter was sold; often also served steaks, chops etc.
A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
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