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CANOE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("canoe" is a kind of...):

small boat (a boat that is small)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canoe"):

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 Eskimos)

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

Derivation:

canoe (travel by canoe)

canoeist (someone paddling a canoe)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel by canoe

Example:

canoe along the canal

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "canoe" is one way to...):

boat (ride in a boat on water)

"Canoe" entails doing...:

paddle (propel with a paddle)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

They canoe the river

They canoe down the river

Derivation:

canoe (small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle)

canoeist (someone paddling a canoe)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Not only the hand, but the hard wooden paddle was used upon him; and he was bruised and sore in all his small body when he was again flung down in the canoe.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

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.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

On the second day after leaving our canoes we found that the whole character of the country changed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Next, he was no longer an onlooker but was himself in the canoe, Moti was crying out, they were both thrusting hard with their paddles, racing on the steep face of the flying turquoise.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

'I go to Dawson,' she says. 'I go in your canoe—how much?'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

White Fang watched it all with eager eyes, and when the tepees began to come down and the canoes were loading at the bank, he understood.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I paid my respects to the rest of the Houyhnhnms in his honour’s company; then getting into my canoe, I pushed off from shore.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was the plain which led to the canoes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the bow the water was hissing as from a steam jet, the air was filled with driven spray, there was a rush and rumble and long-echoing roar, and the canoe floated on the placid water of the lagoon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I do not want anybody in my canoe. I do not like to say no. So I say, 'One thousand dollars.'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)