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small canoe Hist. 
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See also: express canoe single canoe
- 1798 (1964) [I] sent two men in a small Canoe for their Skins.
- 1860 Two sorts of boats are in use--the larger called "north canoes," thirty feet long, and carrying four or five tons; the others, "small canoes," very light, and carrying but three persons.
- 1922 Canoes are built of varying sizes in two distinct classes; the small canoe, used by the individual Indian, in length fifteen to eighteen feet, for hunting or for moving the family from place to place; and the big canoe, or what today is designated a freighter, for the transport of goods or passengers.
- 1798 (1964) [I] sent two men in a small Canoe for their Skins.