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Portage

//ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  2. 2
    A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Livingston County, New York.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Wood County, Ohio.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A home rule borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, named after Portage County in Ohio.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Portage Township.
  7. 12
    A small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    carrying boats and supplies overland wordnet
  3. 3
    The route used for such carrying. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    overland track between navigable waterways wordnet
  5. 5
    A charge made for carrying something. countable, uncountable

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

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  1. 6
    the cost of carrying or transporting wordnet
  2. 7
    Carrying capacity; tonnage. countable, uncountable

    "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[…]"

  3. 8
    The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A porthole. countable, uncountable

    "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
  1. 1
    To carry a boat overland. transitive

    "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; […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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