Portages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 603 anagrams from letters in portages (aegoprst).
1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French; see port5, -age
Taking the canoe and freight upon their shoulders, they carried them along the well-trodden trail which constituted the portage.
In 1847, he completed his light-house work by building the portage River light-house.
“If the redskins are in any force it will be impossible to land and make the portage,” I said.
The Indians helped them to carry their canoes and effects across the portage.
The next outcrop observed was on the portage from the Nascaupee River.
The day we passed over this portage was a most miserable one.
The place of transit from one river to the other was known for years as the portage.
A railway across this portage was opened for traffic in 1876.
There was but one other place, however, where we had to make a portage.
From Warren he removed to Ravenna, in the adjoining county of portage.
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