Antonyms for portage

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : pawr-tij, pohr-, or for 2, 3, 5, 6, pawr-tahzh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɔr tɪdʒ, ˈpoʊr-, or for 2, 3, 5, 6, pɔrˈtɑʒ

Definition of portage

Origin : early 15c., "action of carrying," said to be from Old French portage, Medieval Latin portaticum, though the meaning of these was "tax paid on entering a town," from Latin portare "to carry" (see port (n.1)). Sense of "carrying of boats from one navigable water to another" is from 1690s, reinforced in Canadian French.

As in transit : noun transportation
As in transportation : noun conveyance
As in delivery : noun transfer, transmittal
As in carry : verb transport physical object
As in tote : verb carry

Example sentences :

In 1847, he completed his light-house work by building the Portage River light-house.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

From Warren he removed to Ravenna, in the adjoining county of Portage.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

The day we passed over this portage was a most miserable one.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

The next outcrop observed was on the portage from the Nascaupee River.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

A railway across this portage was opened for traffic in 1876.
Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay

The place of transit from one river to the other was known for years as the Portage.
Extract from : « 'Three Score Years and Ten' » by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve

“If the redskins are in any force it will be impossible to land and make the portage,” I said.
Extract from : « The Cryptogram » by William Murray Graydon

There was but one other place, however, where we had to make a portage.
Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke

The Indians helped them to carry their canoes and effects across the portage.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

Taking the canoe and freight upon their shoulders, they carried them along the well-trodden trail which constituted the portage.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

Synonyms for portage

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