canoe ((v.))†

[< n.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1av.

travel in a canoe.

Quotations

1905

When canoeing in that locality I often saw beaver traces. . . .

1943

"I canoed to the north to learn the ways of your people. . . ."

1bv.

transport (persons or goods) in a canoe.

1909

"What's that about my canoeing a man down to Bindon?"

1924

At Moose Factory I secured the . . . 36-foot Nastapoka and engulfed her with a motor we had canoed and packed down from the frontier.

2v.

canoe it, travel by canoe.

1896

The early settlers had to canoe it to Montreal for their goods.

1958

He tramped it [the Peace River country], he canoed and he horsebacked it. . . .