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PORTOIR: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Por"toir\, n. [OF., fr. porter to bear.]
One who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that which,
produces. [Obs.]
      Branches . . . which were portoirs, and bare grapes.
                                               --Holland.
 

 

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