portage
See also: Portage
English
Noun
portage (countable and uncountable, plural portages)
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fell to this entry?)
- Carrying capacity; tonnage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
- The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
- A porthole.
- William Shakespeare, Henry V (act 3, scene 1)
- Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
- Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
- William Shakespeare, Henry V (act 3, scene 1)
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