Meaning

2 senses

  1. To ride or paddle a canoe.

    paddeln

    travel by canoe

  2. (US, slang)To split someone's head with a round.

Examples

146 sentences

  1. We rented a canoe.

    Ми винайняли каное. — deniko

    ruМы взяли напрокат каноэ. — sharptoothed

    deWir haben uns ein Kanu gemietet. — Vortarulo

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  2. We cut down the largest tree we could find so we could make a canoe.

    Ми зрубали найближче дерево, яке ми знайшли, щоб зробити каноє. — deniko

    deWir fällten den größten Baum, den wir finden konnten; denn wir wollten ein Kanu bauen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Maybe I shouldn't sell my canoe.

    deVielleicht sollte ich mein Kanu nicht verkaufen. — Zaghawa

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  4. I want to buy a canoe.

    ruЯ хочу купить каноэ. — marafon

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  5. You should've gone canoeing with Tom.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
to ride or paddle a canoe:

Origin

Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare L

Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.

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Forms

canoes, canoeing, canoed, canoed
Base formcanoe · to canoe
3rd person singularcanoes
Present participlecanoeing
Past simplecanoed
Past participlecanoed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycanoe
he, she, itcanoes

Past simpleLesson

all personscanoed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave canoed
he, she, ithas canoed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill canoe

Word family

22 related words
Relatedkayakcanoeist
Derivedcanoeablecanoe birchcanoe campercanoe campingcanoeingcanoelikecanoeloadcanoemancanoe plantcanoe polocanoercanoe slalomcanoe sprintcanoewooddugout canoeoutrigger canoeparacanoepink canoeskanoeskinoe

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cannotcannycanonB2canopycant

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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