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por•tage

Pronunciation: (pôr'tij, pōr'-, or, for 2, 3, 5, 6, pôr-täzh'), [key]
—n., v., -taged, -tag•ing.

—n.
1. the act of carrying; carriage.
2. the carrying of boats, goods, etc., overland from one navigable water to another.
3. the route over which this is done.
4. the cost of carriage.

—v.i.
to make a portage: On this stretch of the river, we have to portage for a mile.

—v.t.
to carry (something) over a portage; make a portage with: We portaged our canoe around the rapids.