Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A canoe made from the trunk of a single tree hollowed out; a dugout: used by the American Indians.
- noun A vessel made by sawing a large canoe in two in the middle, and inserting a plank to widen it.
- noun A large flat-bottomed boat, without keel but-with lee-board, decked in at each end but open in the middle, propelled by oars, or by sails on two masts which could be struck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pirogue .
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- noun a
dugout canoe - noun by extension, any small boat
Etymologies
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Examples
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The periagua is a strange rough boat, but the crew were still stranger: I doubt if six uglier little men ever got into a boat together.
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The periagua is a strange rough boat, but the crew were still stranger: I doubt if six uglier little men ever got into a boat together.
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The periagua is a strange rough boat, but the crew were still stranger: I doubt if six uglier little men ever got into a boat together.
Chapter XIV 1909
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The periagua is a strange rough boat, but the crew were still stranger: I doubt if six uglier little men ever got into a boat together.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Re-embarking in the periagua, we returned across the lake, and then mounted our horses.
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The road to Cucao was so very bad that we determined to embark in a periagua.
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Re-embarking in the periagua, we returned across the lake, and then mounted our horses.
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The road to Cucao was so very bad that we determined to embark in a periagua.
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He had put in for fresh water, and to refit, at the place where I first escaped; and, having discovered my companions at the small island of their retreat, sent a periagua full of men to take them.
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But the enemy either having seen us before lowering our sail, or heard the noise of the oars, followed with all speed, in an eight or ten oared periagua.
chained_bear commented on the word periagua
"... a sort of large canoe, composed of the trunks of two trees, hollowed and united into one fabric; whereas canoes in general are formed of the body of one tree. The periagua is used in the Leeward Islands, South America, and in the Gulf of Mexico. Their masts and sails have a great resemblance to the proa, &c.
"There are also double periguas used in Otaheite Tahiti, &c. which are constructed much longer and wider than that above-mentioned."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 341
Alternate spelling of pirogue, perhaps.
October 11, 2008