portage
noun
1 portage
The cost of carrying or transporting.
Roget 270:
transfer,
transference;
translocation,
elocation†;
displacement;
metastasis,
metathesis;
removal;
remotion†,
amotion†;
relegation;
deportation,
asportation†;
extradition,
conveyance,
draft,
carrying,
carriage;
convection,
conduction,
contagion;
transfer
etc.
(of property)
783.
transit,
transition;
passage,
ferry,
gestation;
portage,
porterage†,
carting,
cartage;
shoveling
etc.
v.;
vection†,
vecture†,
vectitation†;
shipment,
freight,
wafture†;
transmission,
transport,
transportation,
importation,
exportation,
transumption†,
transplantation,
translation;
shifting,
dodging;
dispersion
etc.
73;
transposition
etc.
(interchange)
148;
traction
etc.
285.
[Thing transferred]
drift.
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2 portage
Overland track between navigable waterways.
3 portage
Carrying boats and supplies overland.
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