DCHP-3

canoe knife

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a wood-working knife usually having a crooked handle and, often, a hook at one end of the blade, used widely in the north, especially by the Indians, for making snowshoes, fur stretchers, canoes, and all woodwork. See picture at crooked knife.

Quotations

1940
The curved canoe knives [are] the same articles as are included in the 1748 list of trade goods as mocotaugans.
1948
[This is] a crooked, curved or canoe-knife blade made in Sheffield and still sold by the [Hudson's Bay] Company.