Usually means: Carrying boats over land route.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. portage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Portage, portage: Merriam-Webster
  3. Portage, portage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Portage, portage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. portage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. portage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Portage, portage: Wordnik
  8. Portage, portage: Wiktionary
  9. portage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. portage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. portage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Portage, portage: Dictionary.com
  13. portage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Portage (disambiguation), Portage (electoral district), Portage (software), Portage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Portage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. portage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. portage: Rhymezone
  18. Portage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. portage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. PORTAGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. portage: FreeDictionary.org
  22. portage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Portage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portage: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Portage: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canoe Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See portaged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Portage)

noun:  An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
noun:  The route used for such carrying.
noun:  A charge made for carrying something.
noun:  Carrying capacity; tonnage.
noun:  The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
noun:  A porthole.
verb:  (nautical) To carry a boat overland
noun:  A community of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964.
noun:  A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
noun:  A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
noun:  A town in Livingston County, New York.
noun:  A village in Wood County, Ohio.
noun:  A home rule borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, named after Portage County in Ohio.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Portage Township.
noun:  A small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.

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