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carry ((v.))

• 1 v. make a portage (def. 2a or 3)

  See also: portage ((n.)) (def. 2a) (def. 3)  portage ((v.)) (def. 3a)  

  • 1775  (1951)  We passed five falls, leading Canoes over two and carrying at two.
  • 1781  (1934)  Then [we] . . . carried 350 yards through burnt woods on south side.
  • 1824  (1955)  The Old Slave has a pain in his side & his wife is sick & not able to carry.
  • 1921  . . . we had to carry around great log-jams. . . .
  • 1933  There were more than thirty portages to carry over.

• 2 v. Obs. carry tobacco. Of Indians, visit other bands to try to persuade them to join forces for war, the tobacco being carried to be smoked in the councils of deliberation.

  • 1800  (1897)  They [three Indians] had been to all the Indian camps to carry tobacco concerning war. . . .
  • 1801  (1897)  Berdash . . . arrived from the Assiniboine, where he had been with a young man to carry tobacco concerning war.