(Also canoist; spurious fem. -iste.) [see -IST.] One who paddles a canoe.
1865. J. Macgregor, Rob Roy on Baltic (1867), 2. The hard-won experience of a former voyage was a great advantage to the canoist.
1873. G. C. Davies, Mount. & Mere, xviii. 155. Panting canoeists stop for a refresher.
1872. M. Collins, Pr. Clarice, I. ii. 30. The pretty canoiste can move silently along the river with unfatiguing strokes of the paddle.
