lightening place

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shallow place where a boat or canoe had to be partly unloaded before it could proceed.

See: décharge(def. 1)

Quotations

1827

[We] then make the Upper Portage and a lightening place which hold us till about noon.

1852

Afterward we passed the lightening-place of the Rapid River, and encamped five or six miles further on, at half-past eight o'clock.