Booking-clerk
a person who sells tickets, as for a train or plane.
a person who arranges and lists passage for persons, baggage, and goods.
Historical Examples
The Observations of Henry Jerome K. Jerome
Mary Gray Katharine Tynan
The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow Jerome K. Jerome
The New Gulliver and Other Stories Barry Pain
Prisoner for Blasphemy G. W. [George William] Foote
A Laodicean Thomas Hardy
The Lion’s Share E. Arnold Bennett
Harry Blount, the Detective T. J. Flanagan
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 Various
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