CANOE


Meaning of CANOE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

dugout

After organising a group of locals and a dugout canoe , we set out on the week-long journey to Iau.

Using exceptionally sharp teeth, the hippos can crunch up both dugout canoes and their occupants.

■ VERB

paddle

I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in.

They named it Michilimackinac, or Great Turtle, because it resembled a turtle as they paddled toward it in canoes .

The hunters paddling each canoe were terrified.

This time it is the author and her husband paddling an open canoe down the river for four months in 1984.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

paddle your own canoe

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons, which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to.

In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it.

Memories merge with reality now as we beach the canoe near the ledges under the still-standing thick hemlock.

Of course, the canoe was too heavy.

They named it Michilimackinac, or Great Turtle, because it resembled a turtle as they paddled toward it in canoes.

Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes?

We maneuvered the canoe so it skirted just past that rock.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Hitch a ride in the van to canoe in Laguna Verde.

In recent years, we have seen that technological innovation canoes forth modern values into hypermodern forms.

They have climbed mountains and canoed for eight-day stretches in isolated wilderness.

They will be canoeing along the Kennett and Avon canal, joining the Thames at Reading.

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