demi-canot

Cdn. French "half canoe"

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light canoe about 20 feet long, used on certain low-water routes.

Quotations

1952

In addition to these were the demi-canot, or half canoe, which might be twenty feet long and carried a crew of four to six . . . .