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portaging
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the carrying of canoes or boats and their cargoes at a portage (def. la).
See: portage ((n.))(def. 1a)
Quotations
1854
. . . it must be high wines, 40 o.p., condensed for convenience of portaging, and in color and in character veritable blue ruin.
1918
In speaking of portaging, Landmann said that a canoe weighed fifteen hundred pounds and that six men were expected to reverse, shoulder, and carry it.
1965
Portaging on the Barrens is different from portaging through trees.