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Pontage vs Portage - What's the difference?

pontage | portage |

As nouns the difference between pontage and portage

is that pontage is (uk|legal|obsolete) a duty or tax paid for repairing bridges while portage is an act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.

As a verb portage is

(nautical) to carry a boat overland.

pontage

English

Noun

  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
    • (Ayliffe)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    portage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Bishop Fell)
  • Carrying capacity; tonnage.
    • (Hakluyt)
  • The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
  • A porthole.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (portag)
  • (nautical) To carry a boat overland

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