DCHP-3

carrying place

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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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.

See: portage ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1760
From the church of the Cedar Hills across the point . . . there is a carrying place of about six or seven miles.
1954
He had persuaded . . . his . . . men to paddle and portage kegs of rum and bales of trade goods over all the rough water and carrying-places from Montreal three thousand miles away.