York boat

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. a large rowboat or heavy canoe used for transporting supplies, especially by fur trappers in the Canadian Northwest.

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Etymology

Origin of York boat

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

Example Sentences

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York boat

Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special.

From Time Magazine Archive

But one does not wave his hand to a York boat which is not yet in sight.

From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson

Just as we reached our station, I noticed a New York boat put off from the landing.

From Stories of Many Lands by Grace Greenwood

The birch-bark canoe is a mere trifle on the portage, but the heavy York boat capable of carrying three or four tons is a clumsy lugger.

From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by George Bryce

At last, in great anger, he quit the brigade altogether and for two summers he had been seen upon the rivers in a York boat of his own.

From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx