A railway or hotel porter.
1869. He [the Boston hackman of the best school] is a wholly different man from the baggage-smasher of Babel, or from the cabman of London.—E. E. Hale, ‘Ingham Papers,’ p. 59.
1883. The Saratoga trunks are hurled recklessly by the “baggage-smashers” on to the deck.—Pall Mall Gazette, June 14. (N.E.D.)
