Definition of pirogues Pirogues

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Noun
pirogue - a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
		dugout canoe, dugout

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pirogue (Noun)
A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
pirogue (Noun)
A small flat-bottom boat 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 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.

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.