periagua

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dugout canoe.
    — That there were ſeventeen bearded Men there, and therefore, without any more Delay, I went to work with Friday to find out a great Tree proper to fell, and make a large Periagua or Canoe to undertake the Voyage.
  2. A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank.
  3. A large keelless flat-bottomed boat for shoal-water navigation, decked at the ends only, propelled by rowing, or by sails on two masts capable of being struck.
  4. Any small boat. broadly

词形变化

periaguas plural

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词源

From Spanish piragua, in turn from Kari'na [Term?] (“dugout”). Doublet of pirogue.
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