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cannoe

cannoe is the obsolete spelling of canoe.

Meaning of canoe

Verb

canoe (third-person singular simple present canoes, present participle canoeing, simple past and past participle canoed)

  1. To ride or paddle a canoe.
    • Car drivers were helicoptered to safety from nearby roads. There were photographs of people canoeing down streets.2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40
  2. (US, slang) To split someone's head with a round.
    • The email said, “Do you know how happy I’ll be when your cunt ass face is canoed by an assault rifle? Tick tock bitch. Watch your back.” Canoeing is a term for when people mutilate someone’s head.2026 March 26, Joseph Cox, “Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature”, in 404 Media

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Forms of cannoe

pluralcannoes

Questions about cannoe

What is cannoe the obsolete spelling of?
Cannoe is the obsolete spelling of canoe.

Words near cannoe in the dictionary

  1. Cannock
  2. Cannock Chase
  3. Cannock Wood
  4. cannodimethoside
  5. cannodixoside
  6. cannoe
  7. Cannois
  8. cannoli
  9. cannolicchi
  10. cannolilike
  11. cannolis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannoe (page history and authors); canoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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