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portage

RELATED WORD :

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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Por=tage

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun portage has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

portagen. [From 2d Port.].
     A sailor's wages when in port.  [1913 Webster]
portagen. [3d Port.].
     A porthole.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
portagen. [F., from porter to carry. See Port to carry.].
  •  The act of carrying or transporting.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The price of carriage; porterage.  Bp. Fell.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Capacity for carrying; tonnage.  Hakluyt.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.  [1913 Webster]
portagev. t. & i. 
     To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

portage, n. & v.
--n.
1 the carrying of boats or goods between two navigable waters.
2 a place at which this is necessary.
3 a the act or an instance of carrying or transporting. b the cost of this.
--v.tr. convey (a boat or goods) between navigable waters.

Etymology
ME f. OF f. porter: see PORT(5)

THESAURUS

portage

admission, admission fee, air express, airfreight, airlift, anchorage, asportation, bearing, brokerage, carfare, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, cellarage, charge, charges, conveyance, cover charge, demand, dockage, drayage, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, expressage, fare, fee, ferriage, freight, freightage, haulage, hauling, hire, license fee, lighterage, lugging, packing, pilotage, porterage, railway express, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shipment, shipping, shot, storage, telpherage, toll, toting, towage, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, waft, waftage, wagonage, wharfage

ROGET THESAURUS

portage

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

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