Ca-noe', n.
(ka-nōō'), n. [Fr. canot, Sp., Pg., & It. canoa; from canáoa, in the language of the Caribbees. All the Spanish historians of America, when they first mention the word, give an explanation of it: “Illa in terram suis lintribus, quas canoas vocant, eduxerunt.” P. Martyr.]
Sense 1. A boat used by rude nations, formed of the trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting or burning, into a suitable shape. It is impelled by a paddle, instead of an oar.
Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.
Sense 2. A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
A birch canoe with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.
