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canoe

[kuh-noo]

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noun

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.

any of various small, primitive light boats.

verb (used without object)

to paddle a canoe.

to go in a canoe.

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verb (used with object)

to transport or carry by canoe.

Idiom

paddle one's own canoe, Informal.

to handle one's own affairs; manage independently.

to mind one's own business.

Origin:
1545–55; < French < Spanish canoa < Arawak; replacing canoa < Spanish

Related forms

ca·noe·ist, noun

Can be confused: barge, boat, canoe, cruise ship, sailboat, ship, yacht.

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Example Sentences

The new canoe trail follows their ancient routes, which missionaries and fur traders eventually used, too.

To avoid them, rap your canoe with your paddle as you go.

Your flat-bottom canoe will dodge caiman and be portaged past dry patches in the trucks of local ranchers.

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The new canoe trail follows their ancient routes, which missionaries and fur traders eventually used, too.

To avoid them, rap your canoe with your paddle as you go.

Your flat-bottom canoe will dodge caiman and be portaged past dry patches in the trucks of local ranchers.

Elders worry about how modernization pushes out words for traditional skills, such as long-distance canoe navigation.

Signs marked a cleared canoe trail that meandered through the plants.

On weekends in spring and fall, volunteers and rangers lead canoe trips into less-frequented areas.

Suddenly, a huge wave washed over the boy and flipped his canoe upside down.

Three overland portages and a solid day of canoe paddling lay between our campsite and the access point where my car was parked.

Or drain rivers flooding people's houses while they canoe down the street to the underwater grocery store.

When the weather warms, there's no better place to launch a canoe trip.

Traditional canoe sheds, or hale wa‘a, were built close to the water for easy access.

Bring a canoe and paddle your gear to claim one of each reservoir's small islands as your own mini kingdom for the weekend.

Hopefully the kids will stick around for the campfires, the hikes and the canoe trips after they get the video game belt loop.

My first impulse was to flee, which would mean repacking the canoe and paddling upriver in the dark.

The troops move by dug-out canoe or walk the forest paths.

The pervasive silence is broken only by the occasional canoe paddle or the riffle of an angry bonefish.

The area is quiet and remote and offers canoe and raft rentals for visitors.

What this group of outrigger canoe enthusiasts hears is not the.

It was then carried to a carved canoe and taken, by bare.

My hotel gave me a canoe-everyone gets a canoe with their.

We can't even build the equivalent of a canoe to visit the island across the channel.

Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past.

Most resemble clip-on canoe paddles for hands or kiddie flippers for feet-clunky versions of their nimble landlubbing brethren.

The deep, black color of the pool shoaled into amber water as a pod of more than a dozen shad darted under the bow of the canoe.

Bring a canoe and paddle your gear out to claim one of the reservoir's small islands as your own mini kingdom for the weekend.

Shivering in the predawn chill, he helped paddle a canoe a mile out from shore.

Play apprentice to champion canoe polers as they teach their.

We moved every two days by dugout canoe and were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the tent and mattresses provided.

No wonder it is billed as the world's toughest canoe race.

Let's put it this way: it is no voyage for a dinghy or a canoe or an.

Cyclists can ride on two shorter sections of towpath, and public boat trips or canoe hires allow visitors to take to the water.

Giant blue butterflies flutter clumsily past our canoe.

The highlight comes on the last day, when you choose between a zipline canopy tour and an outrigger canoe trip off the beach.

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World English Dictionary

canoe (kəˈnuː)

—n
1.	a light narrow open boat, propelled by one or more paddles
2.	(NZ) another word for waka
3.	(NZ) in the same canoe of the same tribe

—vb , -noes, -noeing, -noed
4.	to go in a canoe or transport by canoe

[C16: from Spanish canoa, of Carib origin]

ca'noeing

—n

ca'noeist

—n

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Word Origin & History

canoe

1550s, from Sp. canoa, term used by Columbus, from Arawakan (Haiti) canaoua. Extended to rough-made or dugout boats generally.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

canoe

see paddle one's own canoe.