canoe n DC ~ rest (Nfld: 1883). Comb canoe rest: frame or platform to support a canoe.
   [1829] 1915 HOWLEY 190 A canoe-rest, is simply a few beams supported horizontally about five feet from the ground, by perpendicular posts. A party with two canoes ... leave one canoe resting, bottom up, on this kind of frame, to protect it from injury by the weather, until their return.

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