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birchbark 
n. a canoe built from the bark of the white birch, long used by the Indians of eastern Canada.
See also: birchbark canoe white birch
- 1872 In Western Canada, in the neighbourhood of London and Hamilton, there is good duck shooting on the rice lakes, where canoes made of bass wood, beautifully built, very light and shaped like a birch bark, are used.
- 1957 How different from the old days, when scores of birchbarks would set up that same stretch of river for the far west. . . .
- 1872 In Western Canada, in the neighbourhood of London and Hamilton, there is good duck shooting on the rice lakes, where canoes made of bass wood, beautifully built, very light and shaped like a birch bark, are used.