Portage group

Related Words

• Portage

  ·noun A sailor's wages when in port. II. Portage ·noun Capacity for carrying; tonnage. III. Portag...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• portage

  A carrying place over land between navigable waters, or along the banks of rivers, round water-falls...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• portage

  Tonnage. Also, the land carriage between two harbours, often high and difficult for transport. Also,...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Group

  ·noun An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• group

  A set of islands not ranged in a row so as to form a chain, and the word is often used synonymously ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Colorado group

  ·- A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Color...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Congo group

  ·add. ·- A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is req...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dakota group

  ·- A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; — so named from ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Harlech group

  ·- A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Laramie group

  ·- An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Lara...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Llandeilo group

  ·- A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; — so named from Llandeilo ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ludlow group

  ·- A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; — so named from t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Potsdam group

  ·- A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; — so named from the sand...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Quebec group

  ·- The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Wenlock group

  ·- The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; — so named from the typical local...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language