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Canoas

[ kuh-noh-uhs; Portuguese kah-naw-ahs ]

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, N of Pôrto Alegre.


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In his day canoas, hollowed from trunks of trees, were put into general use for war as well as for traffic.

I have seen some of those canoas with seventy and eighty men in them, each one with his oar.

At the jetty end, where the Indians lounged at their tobacco and the fishermen's canoas rocked, the sunburnt pirates put ashore.

Of the sixty-four who got to the canoas, eighteen were desperately wounded, and barely able to walk.

Here the Indians were sent out in small canoas, with their spears and tortoise irons.

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