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# canoe

«canoe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light, narrow boat, pointed at both ends, that you move…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a canoe, canoes); verb (canoe, canoes, canoed, canoeing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A canoe is a light, narrow boat, pointed at both ends, that you move with a paddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#m1)

2) To canoe is to travel or paddle in a canoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In outdoor education and water safety, children go canoeing on lakes and rivers with an instructor, always wearing a life jacket (buoyancy aid). In history, First Nations people of Canada and the USA and Maori in New Zealand built canoes for travel and fishing. Phrases: «paddle a canoe», «go canoeing», «paddle your own canoe» (look after yourself).

### examples

- We paddled the canoe across the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x1)
- Always wear a life jacket in a canoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x2)
- Canoes are pointed at both ends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x3)
- We went canoeing on the river at camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x4)
- The Maori travelled in large canoes called waka. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x5)
- Sit still or the canoe will tip over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x6)
- Native peoples made canoes from birch bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x7)
- They canoed down the river for three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x8)
- The canoe floated to the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/#x9)

### note

Countable: a canoe, canoes. Spelling: the -ing form keeps the e: canoeing (not «canoing»). Past form: canoed. In British English a «canoe» sometimes includes kayaks; in a kayak you use a paddle with two blades, in a canoe usually one blade.

### In the corpora

- [The sea runs out so fast that the canoe is pulled past Selangor, Malacca and Singapore to the island of Bintang.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/7/)
- [The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/3/)
- [In a boat or canoe you always wear a life jacket that fits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/4/)
- [Words such as hammock, canoe and hurricane came into English from the Taíno language.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «canoe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canoe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.