periagua

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a dugout canoe or a larger boat made by widening a dugout with added planks

   The party crossed the forest lake in a rough periagua with a cow aboard.

2. 2
   noun

   a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat, sometimes rigged with two masts, used in coastal or inland waters

   The crew lowered the periagua's sails before entering the narrow creek.

An archaic variant of piragua, transmitted through French and Spanish from a Cariban word for a dugout canoe. It is a doublet of pirogue.

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