canoe : Idioms & Phrases
birchbark canoe
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noun a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
birchbark; birch bark.
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canoe birch
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noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
Betula papyrifera; American white birch; Betula cordifolia; paperbark birch; paper birch.
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canoe cedar
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noun large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States
red cedar; Thuja plicata; western red cedar.
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dugout canoe
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noun a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
pirogue; dugout.
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Log canoe
- a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log.
= dugout canoe
Webster 1913
outrigger canoe
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noun a seagoing canoe (as in South Pacific) with an outrigger to prevent it from upsetting
