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York boat

–noun (sometimes lowercase) Canadian.
a large rowboat or heavy canoe used for transporting supplies, esp. by fur trappers in the Canadian Northwest.

Origin:
1860–65; after York, Manitoba, Canada, where it was originally built as a canoe by the Hudson's Bay Company
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