Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who paddles a canoe; one skilled in the management of a canoe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A canoeman.

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  • noun A person who travels by canoe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone paddling a canoe

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Examples

  • We favor a BWCA policy permitting access to some of the presently-inaccessible lakes by the general public and not limiting the use entirely to the canoeist type of individual.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • We favor a BWCA policy permitting access to some of the presently-inaccessible lakes by the general public and not limiting the use entirely to the canoeist type of individual.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • We favor a BWCA policy permitting access to some of the presently-inaccessible lakes by the general public and not limiting the use entirely to the canoeist type of individual.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • A number of athletes have been banned in recent months after using the banned drug, including Polish canoeist Adam Seroczynski, British hurdler Callum Priestley and Chinese Olympic judo champion Tong Wen.

    Alberto Contador Tests Positive For Steroid AP 2010

  • A number of athletes have been banned in recent months after using the banned drug, including Polish canoeist Adam Seroczynski, British hurdler Callum Priestley and Chinese Olympic judo champion Tong Wen.

    Alberto Contador Tests Positive For Steroid AP 2010

  • A police spokesman said they received reports "a canoeist had fallen out of his canoe and was reportedly clinging to a rock" at Draynes, near Liskeard, at around 3.29pm.

    Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones 2012

  • A number of athletes have been banned in recent months after using the banned drug, including Polish canoeist Adam Seroczynski, British hurdler Callum Priestley and Chinese Olympic judo champion Tong Wen.

    Alberto Contador Tests Positive For Banned Substance The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The canoeist stands on the gunwales, near the bow or the stern, and squats up and down to make the canoe rock backward and forward.

    LOSTCasts 84 - Next Week 2010

  • In another sport involving water, flatwater canoeist Carrie Johnson punched her ticket for China by winning the women's solo 500 in Oklahoma City during a weekend of competition that saw a number of canoeists improve their chances for Beijing ahead of another phase of the selection process, the Pan-American championships in Montreal next month.

    Second place notches Lewy Boulet USA TODAY weekly honor 2008

  • She has not been named but is an experienced canoeist.

    Search for missing kayaker continues off Anglesey coast 2010

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