canoe : Idioms & Phrases


birchbark canoe

  • noun a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
    birchbark; birch bark.
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canoe birch

  • noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    Betula papyrifera; American white birch; Betula cordifolia; paperbark birch; paper birch.
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canoe cedar

  • noun large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States
    red cedar; Thuja plicata; western red cedar.
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dugout canoe

  • noun a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
    pirogue; dugout.
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Log canoe

  • a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. = dugout canoe
Webster 1913

outrigger canoe

  • noun a seagoing canoe (as in South Pacific) with an outrigger to prevent it from upsetting
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