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Definition of portaged - 3 dictionary results

por⋅tage

  [pawr-tij, pohr-, or, for 2, 3, 5, 6, pawr-tahzh] noun, verb, -taged, -tag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the act of carrying; carriage.
2. the carrying of boats, goods, etc., overland from one navigable water to another.
3. the route over which this is done.
4. the cost of carriage.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make a portage: On this stretch of the river, we have to portage for a mile.
–verb (used with object)
6. to carry (something) over a portage; make a portage with: We portaged our canoe around the rapids.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < MF; see port 5 , -age
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port·age   (pôr'tĭj, pōr'-, pôr-täzh')   
n.  

    1. The act or an instance of carrying.

    2. A charge for carrying.

    3. The carrying of boats and supplies overland between two waterways or around an obstacle to navigation.

    4. A track or route used for such carrying.

  2. Nautical

    1. The carrying of boats and supplies overland between two waterways or around an obstacle to navigation.

    2. A track or route used for such carrying.

tr. & intr.v.   port·aged, port·ag·ing, port·ag·es Nautical
To transport or travel by portage: canoed and portaged the goods; portaging around the rapids.

[Middle English, from Old French, from porter, to carry, from Latin portāre; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

portage 
1423, "action of carrying," from O.Fr. portage "tax paid on entering a town," from porter "to carry," from L. portare "to carry" (see port (1)). Sense of "carrying of boats from one navigable water to another" is from 1698, reinforced in Canadian Fr.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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