different between portage vs porage

English

French, from porter (“to carry”).

portage (countable and uncountable, plural portages)

An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
The route used for such carrying.
A charge made for carrying something.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fell to this entry?)
Carrying capacity; tonnage.
The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
A porthole.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 3, scene 1
  Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
  Let pry through the portage of the head
  Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
  As fearfully as doth a galled rock
  O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
  Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

portage (third-person singular simple present portages, present participle portaging, simple past and past participle portaged)

porage (plural porages)

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