Portage vs Partage - What's the difference?
portage | partage |
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
(obsolete) A part, portion or share.
Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
*, I.46:
*:looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. ], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.
(archaic, archaeology) The one-time standard practice of the divvying up of artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons and the host territory.
As nouns the difference between portage and partage
is that portage is an act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways while partage is (obsolete) a part, portion or share.As a verb portage
is (nautical) to carry a boat overland.portage
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