See Also: tabulary(1)(dictionary)
tabulary(2)(dictionary)
portage(1)(dictionary)
portage(2)(dictionary)
portage(dictionary)
portage(dictionary)
portage group(medicine)
Grand Portage National Monument(encyclopedia)

portage(2) (iou) and tabulary(1) (iou)


portage(2) (iou)



portage noun1. LME.
[French, formed as PORT verb1: see -AGE. Cf. PORTLEDGE.]
The action or work of carrying or transporting something; carriage. LME.
b. That which is carried or transported; cargo, freight, baggage. LME-M17.
c. The cost of carriage; porterage. obsolete exc. Hist. L15.
Nautical. The burden of a vessel; tonnage. LME-E18.
In full mariner portage, mariner's portage. A mariner's venture, consisting of freight or cargo, which he could carry on board, either instead of or as part of his wages; the space allowed to a mariner for this. E16-M19.
The carrying or transporting of boats and goods between two navigable waters. L17.
J. Macaulay The custom to run the boats down the rapids..to save..portage.
b. A place where this is necessary. L17.

tabulary(1) (iou)



tabulary adjective. Now rare. L16.
[formed as TABULAR: see -ARY2.]
= TABULAR 2a, c.