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portage track

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a path followed by persons making a portage (def. 2a).

See: portage ((n.))(def. 2a),portage path

Quotations

1894

The party began to carry the material . . . along the portage track for twelve miles.

1896

I left the portage trail to hunt in the bush, found it almost impossible to manage my small snow-shoes in the soft snow and took them off only to find myself sinking waist deep in the snow!

1921

In 1615 Champlain ascended the rapids-filled Ottawa, crossed a portage track worn smooth by untold generations of moccasined feet following the great aboriginal route between East and West, [and] reached the broad expanse of demon-infested Lake Nipissing.

1965

[Caption] Park Rangers . . . keep the portage trails open.