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Portage logo #10101) Boat toting 2) Canoe carrying 3) Canoe trip job 4) Carrying 5) Carrying of boats over land 6) Carrying of canoes 7) Chore on a canoe trip 8) City south of Kalamazoo 9) City in the US 10) City of North America 11) City of the US 12) City in the Americas 13) City of Indiana 14) City of the United States
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  1. the cost of carrying or transporting
  2. overland track between navigable waterways
  3. carrying boats and supplies overland

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Portage logo #21000 Portage or portaging is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water. A place where this carrying occurs is also called a portage. Early French explorers in New France and French Louisiana encountered many rapids and cascades. The Amerindians carried their canoes over...
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Portage logo #21000[software] Portage is a package management system used by Gentoo Linux, based on the concept of ports collections. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a meta-distribution due to the extreme flexibility of Portage, which makes it operating-system-independent. The Gentoo/Alt project is concerned with using Portage to manage other operating sys...
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Portage logo #21002• (n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage. • (n.) The price of carriage; porterage. • (n.) The act of carrying or transporting. • (n.) A porthole. • (n.) A sailor`s wages when in port. • (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry. • (v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters....
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Portage logo #23313A situation that exists when a paddler must temporarily leave a river or stream to carry the boat and gear around hazards such as dams, downed trees, or dangerous whitewater.
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Portage logo #21003city, seat (1851) of Columbia county, south-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, about 35 miles (55 km) north of ...
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Portage logo #20898An early intervention programme devised to encourage mothers to stimulate deprived children in Wisconsin, USA. It consists of a developmental checklist which focuses attention on strengths and needs and a set of guidelines and suggestions about what to teach next.
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Portage logo #20898Planned, home-based educational support for pre-school children with special educational needs usually provided by the local education authority.
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Portage logo #20972Por'tage noun [ French, from porter to carry. See Port to carry.] 1. The act of carrying or transporting. 2. The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell. 3. Capacity for carrying; tonnage. [ Obsolete] Hakluyt. 4. A carry between navigable...
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Portage logo #20972Por'tage transitive verb & i. To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
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Portage logo #20972Port'age noun [ From 2d Port .] (Nautical) (a) A sailor's wages when in port. (b) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
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Portage logo #21217HMCS Portage was a Canadian minesweeper of 950 tons displacement launched in 1942. HMCS Portage was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 15 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 4 inch dual-purpose gun; four 20 mm Oerlikon guns; one hedgehog anti-ship mortar and two depth charge throwers.
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portage logo #20400[n] - the cost of carrying or transporting 2. [n] - overland track between navigable waterways 3. [n] - carrying boats and supplies overland
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portage logo #21009portage 1. The action or work of carrying or transporting. 2. To carry or transport (boats, goods, etc.) over land between navigable waters.
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Portage logo #10136A trip between waterways or around a waterway obstruction, carrying everything along with you.
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Portage logo #20836Home-visiting educational service
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portage logo #20974 noun carrying boats and supplies overland
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