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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
portage .
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Examples
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I even "portaged" my cell phone meaning I had to turn back and go get it when I forgot it...
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Dalles, the travellers found great difficulty in proceeding, as the canoes and loads had to be carried, or "portaged," around the falls.
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Rasmunsen and the Yankee, who likewise had two passengers, portaged across on their backs and then lined their empty boats down through the bad water to Bennett.
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It's been portaged a mile into pond for some fishing used it to paddle into camping sites and gets into spots I haven't seen another boat go.
Canoe vs Jon-Boat? Which one would be better for all around use?
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Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously.
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It's been portaged a mile into pond for some fishing used it to paddle into camping sites and gets into spots I haven't seen another boat go.
Canoe vs Jon-Boat? Which one would be better for all around use?
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Evening brings a villager floating down the river, on a craft more easily portaged around the big drops of the canyon.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2
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In places timber-falls blocked the passage of the narrow stream, and the boats and canoes were portaged around.
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Evening brings a villager floating down the river, on a craft more easily portaged around the big drops of the canyon.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2
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Here in the middle of a concrete jungle we call Toronto, the Peterborough teenagers and their mentor portaged a canoe through the streets.
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