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Vinony

portage

verb

  1. to carry over a portage
  2. to move gear over a portage
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noun

  1. act of carrying a boat
  2. the labor of carrying or transporting
  3. (archaic) the cost of carrying : porterage
  4. the route followed in carrying of boats or goods overland from one body of water to another or around an obstacle
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/ / /pɔːrˈtɑːʒ/

name

  1. A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  2. A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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  13. A small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English portage, borrowed from Middle French portage, from Old French portage, from Early Medieval Latin portāticum. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -age.

  1. An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
  2. The route used for such carrying.
  3. A charge made for carrying something.

    “gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them”

  4. Carrying capacity; tonnage.

    “Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing according to her portage, aud euery yeere in the port of Orisa were laden fiue and twentie or thirtie ships great and smal with ryce and diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth[…]”

  5. The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
  6. A porthole.

    “Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English portage, borrowed from Middle French portage, from Old French portage, from Early Medieval Latin portāticum. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -age.

  1. To carry a boat overland.

    “Two months have now elapsed since the work was first begun, viz: from the 20th of last December to the 20th instant, fully one month of which has been occupied in exploring, and the remainder in camping, portageing and measuring; […]”

    “You’d better leave it to him to decide whether it’s worth lumping a canoe along and portageing.”