单词 | canoe route |
释义 | > as lemmascanoe route C1. General use in various types of compound, as in canoe-making, canoe paddle, canoe route, canoe-shaped, canoe trip, canoe-tripping, etc. ΚΠ 1749 W. Douglass Summary First Planting Brit. Settlem. N.-Amer. I. 461 A large Scow or Flat, to carry Persons, Cattle, and Goods, with a Canoe, Tender. 1778 Encycl. Brit. II. (Botanical Table) 10/2 Spaths, or sheath, cymbiform or canoe-shaped. 1796 Monthly Mag. May 295/1 The manufactures of lances, knives, and daggers, canoe building, paddling, and even the subsistence of the king..are all materially interested in the trade of human flesh. 1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxiii. 346 What with hunting, fishing, canoe-making, and bad weather, the progress of the august travellers was so slow. 1885 New Bk. Sports 222 A canoe trip cannot be warranted to be all rose-colour more than any other human undertaking. 1920 Mariner's Mirror 6 347/1 The Fijian canoe-sail is never set..apex downwards in fair weather fashion. 1933 C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders 77 The canoe routes of the Canadian Northwest. 1994 J. Milne Getting Back i. 5 I ride with people who also enjoy canoe-tripping during the soft-water season. 1994 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 5 June i. 3/3 People donned hiking boots, grabbed canoe paddles and hopped on mountain bikes. 2018 P. Fox Northland iii. 40 Every year, Donald leads a canoe trip down the Saint Croix. < as lemmas |
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