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log canoe†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a canoe hewn from a single log. [See picture at dugout canoe.]
See: dugout canoe
Quotations
1828
Upwards, the meandering river, on which one may now and then see passengers crossing in a log canoe, or an Indian with his family paddling in a bark one.
1896
Think of boards drawn from the mill by oxen on two crotches, then put into cribs in the river and pushed by poles, or towed by a log canoe or hurriedly constructed boat. . . .