canoe

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ca·noe1 /kəˈnuː/ ●●○ noun [countable]  TTWa long light boat that is pointed at both ends and which you move along using a paddle 独木舟 → paddle your own canoe at paddle2(5)

Examples from the Corpus

canoe• A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons, which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to.• Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes?• They named it Michilimackinac, or Great Turtle, because it resembled a turtle as they paddled toward it in canoes.• In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it.• Memories merge with reality now as we beach the canoe near the ledges under the still-standing thick hemlock.• Of course, the canoe was too heavy.• We maneuvered the canoe so it skirted just past that rock.

Related topics: Water

canoe2 verb [intransitive]  TTWto travel by canoe 划独木舟，乘独木舟 —canoeist noun [countable]→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

canoe• They will be canoeing along the Kennett and Avon canal, joining the Thames at Reading.• They have climbed mountains and canoed for eight-day stretches in isolated wilderness.• In recent years, we have seen that technological innovation canoes forth modern values into hypermodern forms.• Hitch a ride in the van to canoe in Laguna Verde.Origin canoe1 (1500-1600) French Spanish canoa, from Arawakan

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canoe

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ca‧noe¹ /kəˈnuː/ noun [countable]a long light boat that is pointed at both ends and which you move along using a paddle
⇨ paddle your own canoe at paddle²(5)
     

THESAURUS

■ types of boat
   ▪ yacht a large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sport
   ▪ sailing boat British English, sailboat American English a boat that uses one or more sails
   ▪ rowing boat British English, rowboat American English a small boat that you move through the water with oars
   ▪ dinghy a small open boat used for pleasure, or for taking people between a ship and the shore
   ▪ catamaran a sailing boat with two separate hulls (=the part that goes in the water)
   ▪ trimaran a sailing boat with three separate HULLSs
   ▪ barge a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy goods on a canal or river
   ▪ canal boat (also narrow boat British English) a boat that you use on canals
   ▪ canoe a long light boat that is open at the top and pointed at both ends, which you move along using a paddle. Canoes are for one to three people
   ▪ kayak a light boat for one or two people, that is pointed at both ends and covered on top. A kayak has round holes on top in which the people sit, and you move it along using a paddle.
   ▪ punt a long thin boat with a flat bottom that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river – used for pleasure
   ▪ houseboat a boat that is specially made so that you can live on it
   ▪ pleasure boat a small boat, for example a sailing boat or a rowing boat, that people use on a lake, river etc: People were out on the lake in pleasure boats.
    ⇨ ship

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canoe² verb [intransitive]
to travel by canoe
—canoeist noun [countable]