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pi·rogue

(pĭ-rōg′, pîr′ō)

1. A canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk; a piragua.

2. Any of various boats usually propelled by paddling or poling, especially a light flatbottom boat with pointed ends.

[French, from Spanish piragua; see piragua.]

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pirogue

(pɪˈrəʊɡ) or

piragua

any of various kinds of dugout canoes

[C17: via French from Spanish piragua]

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pi•rogue

(pɪˈroʊg, ˈpi roʊg)

n.

a canoe made of a hollowed tree trunk.

[1655–65; < French < Sp piragua < Carib: dugout]

pirogue

- A canoe made from a tree trunk.

pirogue

n (= dug-out canoe) → Einbaum m, → Piragua f

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Originally they had no means of navigating the seas by which they were surrounded, superior to light pirogues, which were little competent to contend with the storms of the broad ocean.

On the morning after her arrival, the ship was surrounded by canoes and pirogues, filled with the islanders of both sexes, bringing off supplies of fruits and vegetables, bananas, plantains, watermelons, yams, cabbages and taro.

Tamaahmaah came on board of the ship in royal style, in his double pirogue. He was between fifty and sixty years of age, above the middle size, large and well made, though somewhat corpulent.

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They swooped down close to the long pirogues that navigated the lake; and the wild fishermen, terrified at the sight of the balloon, would plunge into the water and regain their islands with every symptom of undisguised affright.

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"Then I'll take you some night in the pirogue when the moon shines.

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Environ 350 habitations se sont ecroulees, des animaux, des pirogues, des ustensiles de cuisine et plusieurs objets emportes par les eaux, sans perte en vies humaines, suite aux pluies diluviennes tombees sur Massala, localite du sud du Mali.

Des pluies diluviennes provoquent l'ecroulement de centaines d'habitations a Massala, dans le sud du Mali

In January of 1955, my father and uncle took me to Reelfoot Lake and I shot my first duck after paddling one of the old Reelfoot pirogues, breaking sheet ice, for three quarters of a mile, to where they had a small blind.

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I recall the rudimentary fishing boats, known as pirogues, that we used to take across the water to a small island known as Ile de N'Gor.