Crossword-Solution: PORTAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portage | n. | A sailor's wages when in port. |
| Portage | n. | The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage. |
| Portage | n. | A porthole. |
| Portage | n. | The act of carrying or transporting. |
| Portage | n. | The price of carriage; porterage. |
| Portage | n. | Capacity for carrying; tonnage. |
| Portage | n. | A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry. |
| Portage | v. t. & i. | To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PORTAGE | anagram | GROPEAT, POTAGER, TOPGEAR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PORTAGE (5)
And here they must make the long portage, and the boys sweat in the sun; And they heft and pack, and they haul and track, and each must do his trick; But their thoughts are far in the Landing bar, where the founts of nectar run: And no man thinks of such gorgeous drinks as that Athabaska Dick.
And there was one bad stretch where in two days they covered nine miles, being compelled to turn their backs three times on the river and to portage sled and outfit over the mountains.
The third day of these wanderings, as we were carrying the canoe upon a rocky portage, she fell, and was entirely bilged.
With the high plain that there interposed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adventurer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river became navigable to the tide.
Even at the first thy loss is more than can Thy portage quit, with all thou canst find here, Now, the good gods throw their best eyes upon’t! Enter two Sailors FIRST SAILOR.
Quotes with PORTAGE (1)
Age, that brings a dwindling to most forms of life, is at its most majestic in the trees. I have seen living olives that were planted when Caesar was in Gaul. I remember, in Illinois woods, a burr oak which was bent over as a sapling a hundred years ago, to mark an Indian portage trail, and the thews in that flexed bough were still in the prime of life. Compared to that, the strongest human sinew is feeble and quick to decay. Yet structure in both cases is cellular; life in b…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1949–2018).