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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pōrt'age, n.

noun

n. [Fr., from porter, to carry. See PORT, v. t.]

  1. The act of carrying.
  2. The price of carriage. Fell.
  3. (Naut.) (a.) A port-hole. [Obs.] Shak. (b.) A narrow tract of land over which merchandise, &c., is carried between two bodies of navigable water. J. F. Cooper. (c.) A sailor’s wages when in port. (d.) The amount of a sailor’s wages for a voyage. Simmonds.