portage vs traffic

portage

noun
  • The route used for such carrying. 

  • An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways. 

  • The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage. 

  • A charge made for carrying something. 

  • Carrying capacity; tonnage. 

  • A porthole. 

verb
  • To carry a boat overland 

traffic

noun
  • Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. 

  • The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication. 

  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. 

  • In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others. 

  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. 

  • Commodities of the market. 

  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. 

verb
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. 

  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods. 

  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. 

adj
  • congested 

How often have the words portage and traffic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )