Portage vs Ford - What's the difference?
portage | ford |
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.
The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
A porthole.
(nautical) To carry a boat overland
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
* Sir Walter Scott
A stream; a current.
* Spenser
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between portage and ford
is that portage is (nautical) to carry a boat overland while ford is .As a noun portage
is an act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.portage
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Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Fell)
- (Hakluyt)
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(portag)Anagrams
* *ford
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
- With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
- Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford .