·noun A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, ·etc.
Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i. e. held your tongue. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
An alley leading from St. Martin's church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks, who cut o...
South-east out of the northern portion of Gravel Lane, Houndsditch, in Portsoken Ward (Strype, Ed. 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Westmoreland Buildings. ...