a canoe hewn from a single log. [See picture at dugout canoe.]
See also: dugout canoe
- 1828  Upwards, the meandering river, on which one may now and then see passengers crossing in a log canoe, or an Indian with his family paddling in a bark one.
- 1896  Think of boards drawn from the mill by oxen on two crotches, then put into cribs in the river and pushed by poles, or towed by a log canoe or hurriedly constructed boat. . . .