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shoot ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
navigate a rapids, riffle, etc. in a canoe, boat, or raft.
See: run ((v.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1689
[We] were forct to shoot 3 Desperate falls [;] ye Raft stuck upon two of ym but gott safely over. . . .
1793
. . . the guides who shoot the Canoes down the long sault and Carrillon Rapids have their huts erected.
1849
Then I made a rapid run to Canada West, to visit my relations there, and returning by the Rapids of St. Lawrence, the Long Sault, etc. (which is exciting to "shoot" in a steamer, rolling down as it does majestically, with the angry water roaring and tumbling, and rushing about it. . . .
1958
It was believed the boat overturned when the men attempted to shoot some rapids.
2v. — Ottawa Valley, Hist.
ride a crib of logs down a slide (def. la).
Quotations
1864
They say that there is considerable danger in shooting these slides, but it is much exaggerated.
1883
Shooting the slides on cribs is capital sport; in its excitement and velocity it reminds you of tobogganing.
1964
Cribs could shoot the slides along the upper Ottawa at places like Calumet and Chaudière.