Canoe
[kə'nuː] or [kə'nu]
Definition
(noun.) small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle.
(verb.) travel by canoe; 'canoe along the canal'.
Checker: Marsha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
(n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
(n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
(v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
Editor: Val
Definition
n. a boat made of the hollowed trunk of a tree or of bark or skins: a skiff driven by paddling.—v.t. to paddle a canoe.—n. Canoe′ist.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence in your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way. To row with a sweetheart, means an early marriage and fidelity. To row on rough waters you will have to tame a shrew before you attain connubial bliss. Affairs in the business world will prove disappointing after you dream of rowing in muddy waters. If the waters are shallow and swift, a hasty courtship or stolen pleasures, from which there can be no lasting good, are indicated. Shallow, clear and calm waters in rowing, signifies happiness of a pleasing character, but of short duration. Water is typical of futurity in the dream realms. If a pleasant immediate future awaits the dreamer he will come in close proximity with clear water. Or if he emerges from disturbed watery elements into waking life the near future is filled with crosses for him.
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Examples
- Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Here I put in my canoe, and climbing a part of the rock, I could plainly discover land to the east, extending from south to north. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The canoe lifted with the lightest ebbing of the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The canoe is as light as a feather,' he said. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But I've had a canoe at Arundel, and I assure you I'm perfectly safe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The crisis was perilous; but not without its charm: such as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips over the rapid in his canoe. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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