[kuh-noo] 
noun, verb, -noed, -noe⋅ing.| 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. |
| 3. | to paddle a canoe. |
| 4. | to go in a canoe. |
| 5. | to transport or carry by canoe. |
| 6. | paddle one's own canoe, Informal.
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| ca·noe (kə-nōō') 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. |