Originally: a long narrow canoe hollowed from the trunk of a single tree; = piragua, n. 1. Subsequently also: any of various kinds of canoe or small…

A canoe or small round-bottomed boat, chiefly used in Central America and the Caribbean.

Chiefly Canadian. Montreal canoe n. = canot du maître n. at canot, n.

A Maori canoe (see quots.).

a bicycle (tricycle) or canoe for two persons, one seated behind the other.

More fully Rob Roy canoe. A light one-person decked canoe having a sail and propelled by alternate strokes of a double-bladed paddle. Now historical.

Used in certain French phrases relating to the Canadian fur trade: canot du maître n./kano dy mɛːtr/ the largest canoe of the fur trade, up to 40…

A wooden boat of a type associated with Peterborough, Ontario; spec. a cedar or basswood canoe. Frequently attributive, esp. as Peterborough canoe.

a form of canoe used in the East (see quot. 1882).

(cf. shadow-building n.).

Short for tandem bicycle n., tandem canoe n., tandem engine n. at compounds 1c(b).

A type of canoe or schooner (see quots.).

Especially at Oxford University: a Canadian canoe.

A kind of canoe used by the Moros in the Philippine Islands.

A small boat or canoe used in ports along the shores of the Persian Gulf.

a spoon-bowed canoe.

Canadian. An air-filled buoyancy chamber in a canoe, intended to reduce the risk of sinking even if the canoe becomes filled with water; so sponson…

a small light canoe used for hunting muskrats in swamps and marshes.

A canoe used by the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.

Used in certain French phrases relating to the Canadian fur trade: canot du maître n./kano dy mɛːtr/ the largest canoe of the fur trade, up to 40…