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pirogue::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dugout, dugout canoe |
| Type of | canoe |
Examples of pirogue
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The son of a farmer, he met his wife travelling by pirogue to her residence, Douala.
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But as the pirogue heads up the river, the motor dies, gasps and dies.
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After Ike's winds subsided, Moll motored a pirogue around the flooded town, surveying the damage.
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One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue.
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By the time the 60 decoys were placed and the pirogue hidden, I still had 20 minutes until shooting time.
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After three trips in a flat-bottomed Cajun canoe called a pirogue, Jackson loads his pickup and sets out.
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The festivities also include armed combat, beauty pageants, pirogue races, and traditional wrestling.
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Our pirogue cruises along the island shoreline.
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It took longer to get the pirogue loaded, and creaking, uncooperative joints made it harder to board the little boat.
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- Dugout canoe: a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
- A pirogue is a small, flat-bottomed boat of a design associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh and West African fishermen . These boats are not usually intended for overnight travel but are light and small enough to be easily taken onto land. ...
- A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log; 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 ...
- A canoe-like means of transportation, made out of a big log. Very shaky and scary on rivers with crocodiles.
- Boat 14-16 feet long x 27 inches wide, propelled by paddle or pushpole through swamp and marsh; variations include V-bottomed racing and deep water pirogue. Plank or dugout construction.
- A small, narrow wooden boat resembling a canoe in structure, used in the bayou.
- (pee-rohg) A wooden dugout canoe made from an entire tree trunk.
- A canoe-like boat developed in Louisiana for duck hunting in cypress swamps and coastal marshes.
- A generally small watercraft of French design that was fabricated of boards, pointed on both ends, and had a flat, keelless bottom. Best employed on calm water.
