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Definition of Portaging
1. portage [v] - See also: portage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portaging
Literary usage of Portaging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (1883)
"... Visit to the Kaieteur—Beautiful Flowers—portaging the Boat —The Kaieteur Fall,
from above, in the Rainy Season—The Best Way to Visit the Fall—Roraima. ..."
2. Forest, Lake, and Prairie: Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada by John McDougall (1895)
"From Norway House to the great plains—portaging— Pulling and poling against the
strong current— Tracking. As the missions on the Saskatchewan were under ..."
3. Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River by Charles Mair, Roderick Ross MacFarlane (1908)
"... Pe»ce River Rapids Running the first chute on Peace River portaging our boats
over the Great Chute of Peace River ..."
4. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804 by Reuben Gold Thwaites (2001)
"... CHAPTER IX portaging AROUND THE GREAT FALLS June XI—July 14, 1805 June ttf.
Friday 1805. A FINE morning the wind from the SW off the Mountains & hard. ..."
5. The Winnipeg Country, Or, Roughing it with an Eclipse Party by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1886)
"V. portaging, Poling, and Promises. j|OWARDS noon the next day we cross the mouth
of the Saskatchewan, and land on the northern shore for dinner and to ..."
6. A Hunter's Camp-fires by Edward John House (1909)
"... and portaging canoes and baggage over many carries. About noon it commenced
to rain, and until dusk a heavy and continuous downpour drenched us and all ..."
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