portage

• We had not arranged for their portage, and I was minded to start anew in La Serenissima, unencumbered upon my arrival. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• Its package manager, portage, automates the configuration and dependency resolution. —  doggdot.us
• They had reached what is called a portage or carrying-place, and there are hundreds of such places all over Rupert's Land On arriving at the foot of the fall, Heywood set off at once to a spot from which he could obtain a good view of it, and sat down to sketch, while his companions unloaded the canoe and lifted it out of the water. —  Away in the Wilderness
• Here boats are once more hauled up for portage--a long portage, nine miles, all the way to the modern town of Aylmer, where the river becomes wide as a lake, Lake Du Chęne of the oak forests. —  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
• This time the portage was at least a mile long, and it led down a gradual slope. —  Bob Hunt in Canada

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context