carrying place

American  

noun

1. portage.

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carrying place British  

noun

1. another name for portage

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Example Sentences

This carrying place has heretofore proved, in a great degree, the subsistence of your younger brothers.

From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore

We had now come to the great carrying place, 4 miles and 50 perches over.

From An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775 by Stocking, Abner

To the last, the Miamis clung to their old carrying place.

From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore

At last we reached the four-mile carrying place, from the Dead River to the stream that leads into Lake Megantic.

From The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 by Watson, Henry C.

We carried over a long carrying place to Medoctock Fort, which stands on a bank of St. John’s river.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)