portage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French, from porter (“to carry”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
portage (countable and uncountable, plural portages)
- 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.
- 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them
- 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- Carrying capacity; tonnage.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], imprinted at London: By George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie, OCLC 753964576:
- 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 […]
- The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
- A porthole.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 3, scene 1
- 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.
- Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 3, scene 1
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
route used for portage
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Verb[edit]
portage (third-person singular simple present portages, present participle portaging, simple past and past participle portaged)
- (nautical) To carry a boat overland