English Dictionary

portage

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪdʒ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways. / The route used for such carrying. / A charge made for carrying something. / Carrying capacity; tonnage.

日本語の意味

船やボートなどを水路間で陸路を通じて運ぶ行為 / 船などを陸路で運ぶ際に利用される経路 / 物品の運搬に対して課される料金 / 運搬能力や耐荷重量

After several rapids, the canoeists decided that a portage was safer than continuing downstream.

いくつかの急流を越えた後、カヌー乗りたちは下流へ進むよりも、カヌーを水路間の陸路で運ぶ方が安全だと判断した。

意味（1）

An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.

意味（2）

The route used for such carrying.

意味（3）

A charge made for carrying something.

gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them

意味（4）

Carrying capacity; tonnage.

Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing according to her portage, aud euery yeere in the port of Orisa were laden fiue and twentie or thirtie ships great and smal with ryce and diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth[…]

意味（5）

The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.

意味（6）

A porthole.

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

portages （ plural ）