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portager
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
one who portages; one skilled in portaging.
Quotations
1897
He was highly recommended, not so much as a canoeman, but as being an expert portager of great experience in northern travel, and also a Eskimo linguist.
1955
From him I first learned to use the portager's tumpline correctly. . . .