Meaning of Portage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2. An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
   countable, uncountable
3. A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
4. The route used for such carrying.
   countable, uncountable
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964.
7. A charge made for carrying something.
   countable, uncountable
8. A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
9. Carrying capacity; tonnage.
   countable, uncountable
10. A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
11. The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
    countable, uncountable
12. A town in Livingston County, New York.
13. A porthole.
    countable, uncountable
14. A village in Wood County, Ohio.
15. A home rule borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
16. A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, named after Portage County in Ohio.
17. A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin.
18. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Portage Township.
19. A small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.

Equivalents

Examples

“gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them”

“Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing according to her portage, aud euery yeere in the port of Orisa were laden fiue and twentie or thirtie ships great and smal with ryce and diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth[…]”

“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.”

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