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portaging 
n. the carrying of canoes or boats and their cargoes at a portage (def. la).
See also: portage ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1854 . . . it must be high wines, 40 o.p., condensed for convenience of portaging, and in color and in character veritable blue ruin.
- 1918 In speaking of portaging, Landmann said that a canoe weighed fifteen hundred pounds and that six men were expected to reverse, shoulder, and carry it.
- 1965 Portaging on the Barrens is different from portaging through trees.
- 1854 . . . it must be high wines, 40 o.p., condensed for convenience of portaging, and in color and in character veritable blue ruin.