DCHP-1 Online

carry ((n.))

• 1 n. the act or process of carrying canoes, boats, supplies, etc. at such a place.

  See also: carriage (def. 1)  portage ((n.)) (def. 2a)  

  • 1912  At Giscomb Portage there is a six-mile carry over the height of land to Summit Lake, one of the sources of the Peace.
  • 1928  Where the first voyageurs had made a carry of a hundred and twenty paces it would now have been possible, had we only enough power, to have driven right up the deepest part of the rapid.
  • 1963  . . . Portage la Loche [is] a twelve-mile carry over the Hudson's Bay-Mackenzie divide.

• 2 n. on a waterway, a place where both canoe (or other vessel) and cargo are carried from one lake or river to another or around rapids, falls, or other obstructions.

  See also: carriage (def. 2)  portage ((n.)) (def. 1a)  

  • 1921  When we got to Giscome Portage, it was clear that it would take a long time to get all the stuff over the eight-mile carry.
  • 1952  . . . there were days . . . when the men sank to their knees in the sodden black muskeg or were hauled half-drowned from the icy rivers, and an hour later were dripping with sweat under a blazing sun on a high rock "carry."