Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
canoe
IPA transcription: [kən'u]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
canoe
Meaning:
small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
canoe
Meaning:
travel by canoe; "canoe along the canal"
Usage examples
However, I didn't see one local dugout canoe.
A few days ago six men were drowned by their canoe upsetting.
I took the canoe I had chosen for my own use from the boat-house and paddled up the lake.
Promptly at sight of the signal I made, the kind Frenchman came across for me in his canoe.
I ordered the five best men of the crews into a canoe lightly loaded; and in a moment it was under way.
The Indian led the way with the canoe on his head, while Buteux and the other Frenchman followed with the baggage.
He declared there was but one large canoe in town, and that we must send to Suno for another, and for men to man it.
Finally, one of them took his trade-box, which represented three years’ toil, and dropped it into a canoe alongside.
Each canoe should be provided with thirty fathoms of strong line for towing over swift water, and every man well armed.
After many delays, we put our baggage into one canoe, and ourselves into the other, and pushed off into the rapid current of the Napo.