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Canoe vs Felucca - What's the difference?

canoe | felucca |

As nouns the difference between canoe and felucca

is that canoe is while felucca is a traditional wooden shallow draught sailing boat used in the mediterranean and along the nile in egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.

canoe

English

(wikipedia canoe)

Alternative forms

* (l) (Jamaican English)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
  • *
  • *:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
  • (lb) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
  • Verb

    (d)
  • To ride or paddle a canoe.
  • Derived terms

    * canoeist

    See also

    * kayak

    Anagrams

    * ----

    felucca

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A traditional wooden shallow draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
  • * "The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads."'' Lawrence Durrell, ''Justine