portage

portage
portage early 15c., "action of carrying," from O.Fr. portage "tax paid on entering a town," from porter "to carry," from L. portare "to carry" (see PORT (Cf. port) (1)). Sense of "carrying of boats from one navigable water to another" is from 1690s, reinforced in Canadian French.

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