portoir

English

Etymology

Old French, from porter (“to carry, to bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

Noun

portoir (plural portoirs)

1. (obsolete) One who, or that which, bears or produces.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     branches […] which were portoirs, and bare^[sic] grapes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “portoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• prior to

Old French

Noun

portoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural portoirs, nominative singular portoirs, nominative plural portoir)

1. stretcher (tool used for carry people or objects)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (portoir)