DCHP-1 Online

freighting canoe

• a large canoe (from 20 to 30 feet long), used for transporting goods, especially in the North.

  See also: freight canoe  

  • 1897  Placing him in our third or freighting canoe, and accompanied by an escort of three kayacks, we departed, amid a generous exchange of salutes.
  • 1953  . . . the old birch freighting canoes were still in the canoe sheds. . . .