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canoe

/kuh-noo/US // kəˈnu //UK // (kəˈnuː) //

独木舟,皮划艇,轻舟,皮艇

Related Words

kayak皮划艇,皮艇,独木舟,皮筏艇outrigger支腿,支杆,支线,支架dugout独木舟,独木桥,防空洞,掘进机coracle绳索,绳结,珊瑚礁,珊瑚岛pirogue游艇,蛙人,圆筒型,码头piragua盗版,盗猎者,盗贼,盗伐

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
    • : any of various small, primitive light boats.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.

    • : to paddle a canoe.
    • : to go in a canoe.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ca·noed, ca·noe·ing.

    • : to transport or carry by canoe.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounlight, paddled boat
Synonyms
kayak皮划艇,皮艇,独木舟,皮筏艇outrigger支腿,支杆,支线,支架coracle绳索,绳结,珊瑚礁,珊瑚岛dugout独木舟,独木桥,防空洞,掘进机pirogue游艇,蛙人,圆筒型,码头piragua盗版,盗猎者,盗贼,盗伐

Examples

  • Complimentary for guests, the Fairmont Kea Lani also offers outings on an outrigger canoe, captained by two locals.

  • Experience the park the way explorers did 250 years ago by renting a canoe and reserving one of the park’s many frontcountry or backcountry sites.

  • They can see how people migrated across islands and pinpoint when technologies like canoes emerged by tracking the emergence of seafaring terms.

  • Lower yourself into a long wooden canoe and glide past cascading waterfalls to the start of a dirt trail.

  • They didn’t have access to tetanus shots or antibiotics, and getting to the nearest hospital entailed a day’s journey by dugout canoe, followed by another on a motorboat and another in a car.

  • As a boy, by the way, Pierre had set out from Florida in an unsuccessful canoe trip to Cuba!

  • Our foreign policy canoe is filled to the gunnels with catch-and-release trout armed with AK-47s.

  • My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.

  • So I go out in a canoe and repeat verses over and over and try and learn poems.

  • That canoe he paddles in Parks, that episode where Ron is a canoe, Nick Offerman built that canoe, for real!

  • A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

  • The roomy canoe, if not built for great speed, certainly was built for as much comfort as could be expected in such a craft.

  • The canoe touched the grassy bank at the edge of the old Carter place at the far end of the lake just before noon.

  • But suddenly Jessie drove her paddle deep into the water and sent the canoe in a dash to the landing.

  • Her chum came leaping up the hill behind her, having moored the canoe with one hitch.

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