DCHP-3

discharge ((n.))

[trans. of Cdn F décharge]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

Quotations

1761
In this distance, there are four carrying-places, besides three or four decharges, or discharges, which are places where the merchandize only is carried, and are therefore distinguishable from portages, or carrying-places, where the canoe itself is taken out of the water, and transported on men's shoulders.
1793
Left the Grand River at Mattawin in which we made eighteen portages and about as many discharges.
1824
The first step . . . is the repairing of portages, discharges and other impediments.
1931
Sometimes it was not necessary to portage around an obstruction, but merely to remove some of the lading from the canoe. Such spots were termed décharges, which promptly became "discharges" in the English vocabulary of the clerk, proprietor, and passenger.