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carry ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
make a portage (def. 2a or 3)
Quotations
1775
We passed five falls, leading Canoes over two and carrying at two.
1781
Then [we] . . . carried 350 yards through burnt woods on south side.
1824
The Old Slave has a pain in his side & his wife is sick & not able to carry.
1921
. . . we had to carry around great log-jams. . . .
1933
There were more than thirty portages to carry over.
2v. — Obs.
carry tobacco. Of Indians, visit other bands to try to persuade them to join forces for war, the tobacco being carried to be smoked in the councils of deliberation.
Quotations
1800
They [three Indians] had been to all the Indian camps to carry tobacco concerning war. . . .
1801
Berdash . . . arrived from the Assiniboine, where he had been with a young man to carry tobacco concerning war.