portage
IPA: pˈɔrtʌdʒ
noun
- 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.
- A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964.
- A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
- A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
- A town in Livingston County, New York.
- A village in Wood County, Ohio.
- A home rule borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
- A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, named after Portage County in Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Portage Township.
verb
- (nautical) To carry a boat overland
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Examples of "portage" in Sentences
- Portage access is on the left bank.
- True casing for the Portage system.
- Portage on the bank is also possible.
- There are no station staff in Portage.
- Also the Portage article is still a stub.
- There is a portage at the dam at the Old Mill.
- A portage railway is the opposite of a train ferry.
- The portage is a fine road through a handsome plain.
- As with the rest of Portage they are written in Python.
- A two kilometer portage leads from the airstrip to the Sheslay.
- Home games are played on the campus of Portage High School in nearby Portage.
- We set out on the 14th before day, and effected the portage, which is long and difficult.
- They had reached what is called a portage or carrying-place, and there are hundreds of such places all over Rupert's Land.
- The portage was a short one, scarce two hundred yards in length, and at the upper end was a small green meadow in which river voyagers camped.
- The reason for having children, of course, is so that you can express yourself through their "portage"--and a cargo bike has way more smug-appeal than a rideable stroller:
- Hodge, who went through this way to the St. Lawrence in the service of the State, calls the portage here a mile and three quarters long, and states that Mud Pond has been found to be fourteen feet higher than Umbazookskus Lake.
- A portage is a place between lakes and rivers where the waters become so shallow or rapid that they cannot be navigated, and the boats have to be lifted ashore and carried overland until it is possible to take to the water again.
- In this, as in every other part of their territories, the Company use boats for the transport of property; but by a very judicious arrangement, much time and labour are saved at this portage, which is said to be twelve miles in length.
- The French word portage, for example, was already in common use before the end of the seventeenth century, and soon after came chowder, cache, caribou, voyageur, and various words that, like the last-named, have since become localisms or disappeared altogether.
- That appreciation and expression of the beautiful is something that the French explorers in that other world -- the valley reached of the pioneers of the seeing eyes and the understanding hearts -- have carried and will continue to carry over those same portages, to give that virile life of the west some of those higher satisfactions of which this daughter of the portage is the prophetess.