birchrind canoe

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a canoe built from the bark of the white birch, long used by the Indians of eastern Canada.

Quotations

1755

Their Birch-rind canoes will carry as much as an India Ships Longboat, and draws little water.

1795

The common deer . . . kick up their hind legs with such violence as to endanger any birch-rind canoe that comes within their reach.