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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.

Port′age

,
Noun.
[3d
Port
.]
A porthole.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Por′tage

,
Noun.
[F., from
porter
to carry. See
Port
to carry.]
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.
The act of carrying.
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)

  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fell to this entry?)
  4. Carrying capacity; tonnage.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
  5. The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
  6. 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.

Translations

Verb

portage (third-person singular simple present portages, present participle portaging, simple past and past participle portaged)

  1. (nautical) To carry a boat overland

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