freighting 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

1897

Placing him in our third or freighting canoe, and accompanied by an escort of three kayacks, we departed, amid a generous exchange of salutes.

1953

. . . the old birch freighting canoes were still in the canoe sheds. . . .