portage
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“With a barge, if you have a closure at a lock and dam it is not like canoeing or kayaking where you can portage around the obstacle. River transit will close,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022
If you don’t need quite as much power and portage, Satechi sells a 66W three USB-C port charger for $55.
From The Verge • Jan. 7, 2022
Where it couldn’t, I accepted a nudge, or even in the case of a then-crumbling Saugus River footbridge, a brief portage.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021
The Indian Agency House was built along the portage route between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers in 1832 to house agent John H. Kinzie and his wife, Juliette.
From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2020
They knew that their sole choice now was to build a portage, or overland route, so they could drag their canoes to the point where the rapids ended.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Vocabulary lists containing portage
Tolkien Reading Day, List 5
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