periagua

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spanish piragua, in turn from the Carib for dugout.

Noun

periagua (plural periaguas)

  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. (by extension) Any small boat.
  • pirogue, an overlapping but not identical term from the French
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