DCHP-1 Online
canoe knife 
a wood-working knife usually having a crooked handle and, often, a hook at one end of the blade, used widely in the north, especially by the Indians, for making snowshoes, fur stretchers, canoes, and all woodwork. See picture at crooked knife.
See also: crooked knife
- 1940 The curved canoe knives [are] the same articles as are included in the 1748 list of trade goods as mocotaugans.
- 1948 [This is] a crooked, curved or canoe-knife blade made in Sheffield and still sold by the [Hudson's Bay] Company.
- 1940 The curved canoe knives [are] the same articles as are included in the 1748 list of trade goods as mocotaugans.