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portage
An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
The route used for such carrying.
A charge made for carrying something.
Carrying capacity; tonnage.
The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
A porthole.
💬 Quotations
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.
(nautical) To carry a boat overland
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