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noun
1.
Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
2.
a flat-bottomed sailing vessel having two masts.
Origin:
1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout
1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout
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Piragua
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| piragua (pɪˈrɑːɡwə, -ˈræɡ-) | |
| —n | |
| another word for pirogue | |
| [C17: via Spanish from Carib: dugout canoe] | |
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piragua
in its simplest form, a dugout made from one log, but also a number of more elaborately fashioned boats, including various native canoes, the structure and appearance of which generally resemble those of a dugout. The pirogue is widely distributed and may be found as a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Mexico; as a shallow-draft boat that is used to maneuver through the Louisiana swamplands; and as a boat used by the Indians of Guyana. Pirogues may be broadened by constructing them from two curved pieces or deepened by affixing planks to their sides. Compare canoe.
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