Portages is valid Scrabble Word

Is portages a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is portages valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for PORTAGES in dictionary:

VERB:

PORTAGE, to transport from one navigable waterway to another
carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters
(of a boat) be carried between or across unnavigable waters

NOUN:

the carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters
a place at which portage is necessary
the action of carrying or transporting something

Words related to PORTAGES

portage10 portaged12 portaging13

Words that contain PORTAGES

reportages13 colportages16 rapportages16

How to use PORTAGES in a sentence

All the hard work, the packing at portages, the making of camp, the long, wearing days of hunting, had fallen upon the two whose prisoner he was.
Because of rapids and the fierceness of the spring floods, portages were many, and progress slow during the whole of that day.
He first read to me some of these glowing sentences, while on the portages of the Fox.
The bark of the canoes became so saturated with water that they were limber, and bent under the weight of carrying them on the portages.
Then three portages of short extent, say fifty to three hundred yards each, in quick succession.
We were three days in descending the Fox River and its portages to Green Bay.
There were other journeys to be taken also, which, but for the portages, might have been regarded as pleasure trips pure and simple.
They were thinking of the portages, and the numberless times those bags, bales, bundles, and boxes would have to be carried over miles of portages on their shoulders.
Sometimes they would make not more than seven or eight miles in a day when the portages were bad, and on one record day the total distance covered was only four miles.
You see, there is so much tramping over portages, rowing up and down river, and all that sort of thing.

During these portages the fatigue of the women was great.
For more than two centuries and a quarter they have sweated the wilderness freight across these same portages.
So, as the days passed upon the river trail, the name of Pierre Lapierre was all but forgotten in the menace of rapids and the monotony of portages.
They first blazed their trails into the black forests and left traces of their work in the names of portages and little villages.
The greater length of these rapids can be tracked, with some short portages around the worst places.
They found this river one of great volume, and they had many long portages to make and much fast water to pole up.
Until within a few years every ounce of freight for the lower Mackenzie River posts had to negotiate this turbulent waterway, making seven portages and many decharges.
The three portages on that river were surveyed by chain and compass.
Baty that Article 12 is inapplicable to any routes other than the water-ways specified and the land routes and portages auxiliary to them.
I gathered grass every day to feed it, and carried it in my arms over the rough portages.
These portages are among the troublesome delights of a journey in the wilderness.
It will be young Joseph that steers the canoe through the dangerous places, and carries the heaviest load over the portages, and leads the way on the long journeys.
On the 13th, we made two more portages, and met Indians, of whom we purchased horses and wood.
After making two portages, we arrived on the banks of Beaver river, which was here but a rivulet.
We made that day twenty-seven portages, all very short.
Below, the succession of falls and rapids is constant, so that we made no fewer than thirty-six portages in the course of the day.
At the Lake, we found Lieutenant Steel and the exploring party which had been sent forward to explore and clear the path at the portages.

Similar words containing PORTAGE without suffix s

portage10 portaged12 reportage12 colportage15 rapportage15 reportages13 colportages16 rapportages16

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