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carry ((n.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
the act or process of carrying canoes, boats, supplies, etc. at such a place.
Quotations
1912
At Giscomb Portage there is a six-mile carry over the height of land to Summit Lake, one of the sources of the Peace.
1928
Where the first voyageurs had made a carry of a hundred and twenty paces it would now have been possible, had we only enough power, to have driven right up the deepest part of the rapid.
1963
. . . Portage la Loche [is] a twelve-mile carry over the Hudson's Bay-Mackenzie divide.
2n.
on a waterway, a place where both canoe (or other vessel) and cargo are carried from one lake or river to another or around rapids, falls, or other obstructions.
Quotations
1921
When we got to Giscome Portage, it was clear that it would take a long time to get all the stuff over the eight-mile carry.
1952
. . . there were days . . . when the men sank to their knees in the sodden black muskeg or were hauled half-drowned from the icy rivers, and an hour later were dripping with sweat under a blazing sun on a high rock "carry."