Montrealn.
/mɒntrɪˈɔːl/, U.S. /ˌmɑntriˈɔl/, /ˌmɑntriˈɑl/, Canadian English /ˌmʌntriˈɒl/, /ˌmɒntriˈɒl/ 1. Chiefly Canadian. Montreal canoe n. = canot du maître n. at canot n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe
pirogue1666
dory1709
Montreal canoe1793
waka1807
tandem canoe1867
Rob Roy1868
canot du maître1872
Peterborough1882
snake-boat1882
shadow canoe1883
tandem1884
buckeye1885
Canader1893
vinta1900
bellum1901
spoon canoe1907
sponson canoe1911
ratting canoe1944
tarada1960
canot du nord1961
1793 J. Macdonell Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 94 Part of the Company's Furs are sent Round the Lakes in Shipping, but the major part goes down the ottawa in montreal Canoes.
1834 D. Mactavish Let. 7 Sept. in J. Hargrave Corr. (1938) 153 The largest Canoes in this country are called the Montreal Canoes.
1954 M. W. Campbell Nor' Westers 44 Each northern canoe held twenty-five ninety-pound packs instead of the sixty loaded into the Montreal canoes.
1992 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 19 Feb. b1 It took almost a dozen men to move the 14-passenger birch bark Montreal canoe.
2. Montreal Protocol n. (a) each of four protocols signed in Montreal in 1975 concerning the presumed liability of an international air carrier in the event of death or injury to a passenger or delay, damage to, or loss of cargo or baggage; (b) an international agreement signed in Montreal in September 1987, which prescribed regulations restricting the production and use of substances damaging to the stratospheric ozone layer.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > convention > specific
Geneva Convention1865
Montreal Protocol1975
1975 ICAO Bull. Oct. 17/3 Montreal Protocol No. 4 and the Additional Protocols 1, 2, and 3 will come into force after ratification by 30 signatory states.
1983 Legal Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. 15 The Senate will once again consider the ‘Montreal Protocols’ which would amend the Warsaw convention of 1929 by increasing liability for death and personal injury in air disasters.
1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 17 Sept. c6 The Montreal Protocol will cut consumption of chlorofluorocarbons—used in refrigerators, plastic foams and aerosols—by 50 percent over a 10-year period beginning in 1990.
1990 Earth Matters Summer 1/1 When Third World countries came to London to renegotiate the Montreal Protocol..they were asking ‘In Whose Interest?’ it was for them to pay for more expensive, but ozone-friendly chemicals in their refrigerators.
1995 Guardian 3 Aug. i. 2/6 The compounds covered in the 1987 Montreal Protocol disintegrate in the atmosphere and release chlorine that reacts with molecules of ozone, making them split.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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