canoe
canoe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.
- 2.A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
- 3.To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is a boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow called?
- What is a light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast called?
- What is to manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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