resting place

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of several stopping places established on a long portage (def. la). See pose 1933 quote.

See: portage ((n.))(def. 1a),pose(def. 1)

Quotations

1793

The Portage is . . . divided by the voyageurs into sixteen Poses or resting places. . . .