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canoe

[ kuh-noo ]

noun

  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.


verb (used without object)

, ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.
  1. to paddle a canoe.
  2. to go in a canoe.

verb (used with object)

, ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.
  1. to transport or carry by canoe.

canoe

/ kəˈnuː /

noun

  1. a light narrow open boat, propelled by one or more paddles
  2. another word for waka
  3. in the same canoe
    of the same tribe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to go in a canoe or transport by canoe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • caˈnoeing, noun
  • caˈnoeist, noun
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Other Words From

  • ca·noeist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of canoe1

1545–55; < French < Spanish canoa < Arawak; replacing canoa < Spanish
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Word History and Origins

Origin of canoe1

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

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

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Example Sentences

Complimentary for guests, the Fairmont Kea Lani also offers outings on an outrigger canoe, captained by two locals.

Experience the park the way explorers did 250 years ago by renting a canoe and reserving one of the park’s many frontcountry or backcountry sites.

They can see how people migrated across islands and pinpoint when technologies like canoes emerged by tracking the emergence of seafaring terms.

Lower yourself into a long wooden canoe and glide past cascading waterfalls to the start of a dirt trail.

They didn’t have access to tetanus shots or antibiotics, and getting to the nearest hospital entailed a day’s journey by dugout canoe, followed by another on a motorboat and another in a car.

As a boy, by the way, Pierre had set out from Florida in an unsuccessful canoe trip to Cuba!

Our foreign policy canoe is filled to the gunnels with catch-and-release trout armed with AK-47s.

My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.

So I go out in a canoe and repeat verses over and over and try and learn poems.

That canoe he paddles in Parks, that episode where Ron is a canoe, Nick Offerman built that canoe, for real!

A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

The roomy canoe, if not built for great speed, certainly was built for as much comfort as could be expected in such a craft.

The canoe touched the grassy bank at the edge of the old Carter place at the far end of the lake just before noon.

But suddenly Jessie drove her paddle deep into the water and sent the canoe in a dash to the landing.

Her chum came leaping up the hill behind her, having moored the canoe with one hitch.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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