pirogue (Noun) A small flat-bottomboat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made of one four-feet by eight-feet piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-feet eight-inches wide eight-feet long pointed-ends lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being comprised of the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval.
pirogue (Noun) A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.
pirogue A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionaryπ
pirogue pi-rΕgβ². See Periagua
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Bookβ΅
pirogue A canoe formed from the trunk of a large tree, generally cedar or balsa wood. It was the native vessel which the Spaniards found in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west coasts of South America; called also a dug-boat in North America.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteerπ₯
pirogue American Indian canoe, dug out, formed out of the trunk of a
tree; or two canoes united. A term also applied in the United States to
a narrow ferry-boat carrying two masts and a leeboard.
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