portage | ˈpôrdij |
noun
the carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters: the return journey was made much simpler by portage.
• a place where carrying a boat is necessary: a portage over the dam.
• archaic the action of carrying or transporting something: the cloister required an enormous labor of portage from the plain.
verb [with object]
carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters: they are incapable of portaging a canoe | [no object] : they would only run the rapid if they couldn't portage.
• [no object, with adverbial] (of a boat) be carried between navigable waters: the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba.
origin
late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry’. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century.
one if by land
two if by sea
2 barrel vaults with a light per/struct
senator/consul holding lamp inside vaulted structure
barrel vault with one light (capital dome with full moon)
cooper | ˈkoopər |
noun
a maker or repairer of casks and barrels.
verb [with object]
make or repair (a cask or barrel): my father coopered casks and barrels for the ships | [no object] : he worked most of his life coopering for a brewery.
origin
Middle English cowper, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German kūper, from kūpe ‘tub, vat’, based on Latin cupa. Compare with coop.
guber | ˈɡoobər |
adjective Nigerian English
relating to a governor; gubernatorial: scores of guber candidates and aspirants attended the rally | the guber election.
origin
1980s: abbreviation of gubernatorial.
Middle English cowpe; related to Dutch kuip ‘vat’ and German Kufe ‘cask’, based on Latin cupa. Compare with cooper.
cybernetics | ˌsībərˈnediks |
plural noun [treated as singular]
the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
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1940s: from Greek kubernētēs ‘steersman’, from kubernan ‘to steer’.