DCHP-2
carrying place DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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: portage ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1760 From the church of the Cedar Hills across the point . . . there is a carrying place of about six or seven miles.
- 1954 He had persuaded . . . his . . . men to paddle and portage kegs of rum and bales of trade goods over all the rough water and carrying-places from Montreal three thousand miles away.
- 1760 From the church of the Cedar Hills across the point . . . there is a carrying place of about six or seven miles.