canoe

/kəˈnu/

/kəˈnu/

Other forms: canoes; canoeing; canoed

A canoe is a narrow boat that you propel and steer by paddling. Most canoes are fairly light, so that one or two people can carry them easily to the water.

A canoe is wide enough for one person to sit in front of another, and pointed at both ends. Paddlers sit or kneel in the canoe and push through the water with wide, usually wooden paddles to direct their path through the water. The word canoe comes, by way of the Spanish canoa, from the Haitian language known as Carib or Arawakan, canaoua.

Definitions of canoe

1. noun

   small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle
   types:

   birch bark, birchbark, birchbark canoe

   a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree

   dugout, dugout canoe, pirogue

   a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log

   kayak

   a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by the Inuit people

   outrigger canoe

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

   type of:

   small boat

   a boat that is small
2. verb

   travel by canoe
   “canoe along the canal”

   type of:

   boat

   ride in a boat on water