A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage
A long, light, narrow boat with sharp ends and curved sides It is usually propelled by hand-driven paddles The Lheidli Tenneh hollowed out two-thirds of the diameter of a poplar-tree trunk to make a canoe The resulting upper edges were forced out by means of cross-bars that were made gradually larger until the canoe had attained the requisite width
A small boat propelled with a single blade paddle, from a kneeling position in sprint and whitewater competition Touring and marathon paddlers normally sit Touring, sprint and most marathon canoes are undecked; many whitewater canoes are decked, and may appear to be kayaks Canoes are derived from the birch bark canoes of North America LR above: touring canoe, about 5m long; Sprint C1, 520cm long, 75cm beam; Marathon TC1 The term canoeing often refers to kayaking as well
An open craft with pointed ends that is propelled with a single-bladed paddle Also called an "open boat "
A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends
A boat made from a wood frame, covered with birch bark and made waterproof with resin (sap) from pine or balsam trees It was very light and manoeuverable
Broadly speaking, any paddle-propelled craft with two pointed ends, which includes kayaks But the word is often used to mean a Canadian canoe
A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape
small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle travel by canoe; "canoe along the canal
an typically open boat propelled with a single bladed paddle from a kneeling position Contrast with kayak, a decked boat propelled with a two-bladed paddle from seated position
a construction element of modern three-point hydroplanes, including sponson, chines, and air trap full length from bow to stern, molded as one piece