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Webster 1913 Edition
Portage
Port′age
(?; 48)
, Noun.
[From 2d
Port
.] (Naut.)
(a)
A sailor’s wages when in port.
(b)
The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
1.
The act of carrying or transporting.
2.
The price of carriage; porterage.
Bp. Fell.
3.
Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
[Obs.]
Hakluyt.
4.
A carry between navigable waters. See 3d
Carry
. Por′tage
,Verb.
T.
& I.
To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
Webster 1828 Edition
Portage
PORTAGE
,Noun.
1.
The price of carriage.2.
A port-hole. [Unusual.]3.
A carrying place over land between navigable waters.Definition 2024
portage
portage
English
Noun
portage (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fell to this entry?)
- Carrying capacity; tonnage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
- The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
- A porthole.
- 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;
- William Shakespeare, Henry V (act 3, scene 1)
Translations
route used for portage
Verb
portage (third-person singular simple present portages, present participle portaging, simple past and past participle portaged)
- (nautical) To carry a boat overland