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canoe

[ kuh-noo ]
/ kəˈnu /
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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), ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.

to paddle a canoe.
to go in a canoe.

verb (used with object), ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.

to transport or carry by canoe.

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Idioms for canoe

    paddle one's own canoe, Informal.
    1. to handle one's own affairs; manage independently.
    2. to mind one's own business.

Origin of canoe

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

OTHER WORDS FROM canoe

ca·noe·ist, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH canoe

barge, boat, canoe , cruise ship, sailboat, ship, yacht

Words nearby canoe

cannular, cannulate, cannulation, canny, Canoas, canoe, canoe birch, canoe slalom, canoewood, can of corn, can of worms
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Words related to canoe

kayak, outrigger, dugout, coracle, pirogue, piragua

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British Dictionary definitions for canoe

canoe
/ (kəˈnuː) /

noun

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

verb -noes, -noeing or -noed

to go in a canoe or transport by canoe

Derived forms of canoe

canoeing, nouncanoeist, noun

Word Origin for canoe

C16: from Spanish canoa, of Carib origin
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Idioms and Phrases with canoe

canoe

see paddle one's own canoe.

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