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Pirogue

noun
(Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc)
1.
A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log.  Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe.





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"Pirogue" Quotes from Famous Books



... get up! The water is on us!" They both rushed off to the lake for the skiff. The levee had not broken. The water was running clean over it and through the garden fence so rapidly that by the time I dressed and got outside Max was paddling the pirogue they had brought in among the pea-vines, gathering all the ripe peas left above the water. We had enjoyed one mess and he vowed ...
— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable


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