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portage route
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a path followed by persons making a portage (def. 2a).
See: portage path(def. 2a)
Quotations
1905
On Monday morning George took an axe and cut us a portage route from our camp through the swamp a mile and half to the foot of a steep hill.
1958
. . . he found a portage route from the east end of Lake Athabasca. . . .