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Canoeing - 3 dictionary results

ca⋅noe

[kuh-noo]
noun, verb, -noed, -noe⋅ing.
–noun
1. any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
2. any of various small, primitive light boats.
–verb (used without object)
3. to paddle a canoe.
4. to go in a canoe.
–verb (used with object)
5. to transport or carry by canoe.
6. paddle one's own canoe, Informal.
a. to handle one's own affairs; manage independently.
b. to mind one's own business.

Origin:
1545–55; < F < Sp canoa < Arawak; r. canoa < Sp
ca·noe     (kə-nōō')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A light, open, slender boat that has pointed ends and is propelled by paddles.

v.   ca·noed, ca·noe·ing, ca·noes

v.   tr.
To carry or send by canoe.

v.   intr.
To travel in or propel a canoe.


[French canoe and Spanish canoa (French, from Spanish), of Cariban origin.]

ca·noe'ist n.

Canoeing

Ca*noe"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canoedp. pr. & vb. n. Canoeing.] To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

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