portage vs travel

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 

travel

noun
  • The act of traveling; passage from place to place. 

  • An account of one's travels. 

  • The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. 

  • The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. 

  • Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. 

  • A series of journeys. 

verb
  • To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. 

  • To travel throughout (a place). 

  • To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit 

  • To force to journey. 

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. 

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