DCHP-1 Online

resting place Obs.

• one of several stopping places established on a long portage (def. la). See pose 1933 quote.

  See also: portage ((n.)) (def. 1a)  pose (def. 1)  

  • 1793  (1933)  The Portage is . . . divided by the voyageurs into sixteen Poses or resting places. . . .