chemanis

[< Algonk.; cf. Ojibwa chīmān canoe, boat]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light canoe.

Quotations

1768-82

[cheeman canoe.]

1860

[. . . "jimans"--so they [Ojibwa Indians] call their canoes. . . .]

1955

Sometimes I go in my chemanis if the water is good.