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canoe
[ kuh-noo ]
noun
- any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- any of various small, primitive light boats.
verb (used without object)
- to paddle a canoe.
- to go in a canoe.
verb (used with object)
- to transport or carry by canoe.
canoe
/ əˈԳː /
noun
- a light narrow open boat, propelled by one or more paddles
- another word for waka
- in the same canoeof the same tribe
verb
- to go in a canoe or transport by canoe
Derived Forms
- ˈԴDZԲ, noun
- ˈԴDZ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ·ԴDZi noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of canoe1
Word History and Origins
Origin of canoe1
Idioms and Phrases
- paddle one's own canoe, Informal.
- to handle one's own affairs; manage independently.
- to mind one's own business.
More idioms and phrases containing canoe
see paddle one's own canoe .Example Sentences
It added it has tried to help those with a limited mobility by accommodating aids such as hand-pedalled canoes and larger vessels.
Desperate residents are trying to flee the floodwaters by wading, swimming or paddling to safety in homemade canoes.
“The false accusations Defendants made were so heinous that John Oliver felt justified in telling his millions of viewers: ‘F— that doctor with a rusty canoe.
Magdalena was among those who clambered into motor boats and wooden canoes last June, bound for new homes.
In the Pacific Northwest, Native American stories told of “how the prairie became ocean” and canoes were flung into trees.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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