| 单词 | carrying place |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarrying place carrying place n. North American (now chiefly historical) a route for carrying boats and supplies from one navigable waterway to another, or past a waterfall, rapids, or other obstruction; a portage; cf. carriage n. 8, carry n.1 5a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > by dragging or carrying over land > place of carrying place1689 portage1698 halover1699 carriage placea1710 carriagea1724 carry1838 1689 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1861) 4th Ser. V. 221 Then we marched down to..several of the carrying-places. 1786 W. Grayson Let. 27 May in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 133 The navigable waters and the carrying-places between them are made common highways. 1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. liii. 192 The shortest carrying place from the Kennebec to the Dead River. 2019 Clarington (Ontario) This Week (Nexis) 3 Sept. (Final ed.) 1 There were multiple carrying places in the region connecting the ‘big lake’ back to the tributaries such as the Trent River and the Kawartha Lakes. < as lemmas |
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