[Sp. cáscara bark.] A bark canoe (in Spanish America).
1882. Athenæum, 4 Feb., 155/2. Those who floated the New World over in birch-bark canoes, dug-outs, cedar canoes, balsas, woodskins, and cascaras.
1882. Standard, 10 Feb., 5/3. The cascara of the Caripuna … or the coracle of the Mandans and the Welsh.
