freight canoe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large canoe (from 20 to 30 feet long), used for transporting goods, especially in the North.

Quotations

1914

The Aldebaran was a big "freight" canoe made by the Peterborough Canoe Co.

1927

. . . the raft [was] lashed alongside Gordon's 20-foot freight canoe.

1966

But the use of fragile canvas and wood freight canoes [in hunting walrus] is increasing. . . .