Definitions for canoe

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canoe ca·noe

Spelling: [kuh-noo]

IPA: /kəˈnu/

Canoe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in canoe (aceno).

Definitions for canoe

noun

1. any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
2. any of various small, primitive light boats.

Idioms

1. paddle one's own canoe, Informal. to handle one's own affairs; manage independently. to mind one's own business.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport or carry by canoe.

verb (used without object)

1. to paddle a canoe.
2. to go in a canoe.

Origin of canoe

1545-55; French Spanish canoa Arawak; replacing canoa Spanish

Examples for canoe

When the Queen and Prince Philip visited Tuvalu in 1982, Her Majesty was carried ashore in a canoe by locals.

Here the canoe was driven upon the beach, and the whole party landed.

So I go out in a canoe and repeat verses over and over and try and learn poems.

That canoe he paddles in Parks, that episode where Ron is a canoe, Nick Offerman built that canoe, for real!

We all went ashore in this canoe, then, and were soon alongside of a wharf.

Enoch was waiting for us, and helped me lift Cross from the canoe.

Kalaj is the opposite of the narrator—brash, outspoken, adventurous, and canoe tipping—and they make an odd couple.

If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?

We carried off one canoe load, and even returned for a second.

My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.