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or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

The act or art of using a canoe.

A canoeman.

One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

A bark canoe used by the Africans.

olcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

(also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.] A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable.

o form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

A waterspout; a hurricane. [Obs.] Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.

A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

h, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

e contents of the log board. Log cabin, Log house, a cabin or house made of logs. -- Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. -- Log glass (Naut.), a small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line. -- Log line (Naut.), a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fas…

A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber.

Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.

A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

ment with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

A large war canoe of the Society Islands.