canoe
IPA: kʌnˈu
noun
- A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
- (slang) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
- (gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.
verb
- To ride or paddle a canoe.
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Examples of "canoe" in Sentences
- This is the largest canoe in the world.
- The Eel River is the locale for the canoe race.
- Let the wind choose as to the quickness of a canoe.
- Due to shallowness, canoes and kayaks are recommended.
- In fact, the whole rig is then called an outrigger canoe.
- One of the main forms of transportation is the Klepper canoe.
- But where the currents come together he canoe is turned over.
- As an example, the word "canoe" is made up of four keystroke pairs.
- The other four head towards the upper course of the river in a canoe.
- The estuary was the site of boat yards and canoe rental sites in the 50s.
- The Argentiere Canoe Slalom Course is in the Durance River south of the town.
- The town is also home to the Burton Canoe Club on the banks of the River Trent.
- "We'll have to portage," Corliss said, as Frona turned the canoe from the bank.
- The bottom of his canoe is a wrack of fish — pike and walleyes stacked like driftwood.
- We decided on the word canoe, which is a word that Christopher Columbus heard from some of the Indians.
- It was in the fall of 1896 that the two partners came down to the east bank of the Yukon, and drew a Peterborough canoe from a moss-covered cache.
- Did I venture to run the wildest rapids of the creek in the clumsy box which I called my canoe, she trusted her newest frock and ribbons to my seamanship.
- And then there's the Guinean-born guy suffering from what he describes as canoe sickness, an illness that keeps him from his dream of playing professional soccer.
- She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience.
- It was what they call a canoe (so the Flamingoes told me), and most of the men in it were black; but there was one white man who had a curious stick in his hand, which he every now and then would point at some bird or animal, and then he made tire come out of the stick, and the bird or animal generally got hurt.