portage
搬运工,搬运,搬运车,搬运工人
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Definitions
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- : the act of carrying; carriage.
- : the carrying of boats, goods, etc., overland from one navigable water to another.
- : the route over which this is done.
- : the cost of carriage.
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por·taged, por·tag·ing.
- : to make a portage: On this stretch of the river, we have to portage for a mile.
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por·taged, por·tag·ing.
- : to carry over a portage; make a portage with: We portaged our canoe around the rapids.
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For shorter outings in Vermont, paddlers should target the faster-flowing stretches beneath dams and try to end the day at a campsite before the next portage.
On the map, look for areas that can only be accessed via a significant portage, ideally a mile or more.
Otherwise, it’s really, really easy to spend 10 or 15 minutes milling around at the start and finish of every portage, and there are two problems with this.
Right then we switched to rock portage and charged back down the beach to get the IBS into the water.
It would have been less labor to have tied the beasts, put them into the boat, and hauled it across the portage.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when they commenced their preparations for making this extraordinary portage.
Making up their bundles as usual, they commenced a struggle with the intricacies and obstacles of the portage.
The place of transit from one river to the other was known for years as the Portage.
The portage was a long mile but the girls were accustomed to hiking and took it at a brisk pace.