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birchrind canoe Obs.

• a canoe built from the bark of the white birch, long used by the Indians of eastern Canada.

  See also: birchbark canoe  white birch  

  • 1755  (1907)  Their Birch-rind canoes will carry as much as an India Ships Longboat, and draws little water.
  • 1795  (1911)  The common deer . . . kick up their hind legs with such violence as to endanger any birch-rind canoe that comes within their reach.