Meaning

4 senses

  1. A dugout canoe.

  2. A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank.

  3. A large keelless flat-bottomed boat for shoal-water navigation, decked at the ends only, propelled by rowing, or by sails on two masts capable of being struck.

  4. (broadly)Any small boat.

Origin

From Spanish piragua, in turn from Kari'na [Term?] (“dugout”). Doublet of pirogue.

From Spanish piragua, in turn from Kari'na [Term?] (“dugout”). Doublet of pirogue.

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Forms

plural: periaguas
Singularperiagua
Pluralperiaguas

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
piroguedugoutlogboat

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpirogue

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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