Periagua

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a dugout canoe
  • n. by extension, any small boat
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See pirogue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A canoe made from the trunk of a single tree hollowed out; a dugout: used by the American Indians.
  • n. A vessel made by sawing a large canoe in two in the middle, and inserting a plank to widen it.
  • n. A large flat-bottomed boat, without keel but-with lee-board, decked in at each end but open in the middle, propelled by oars, or by sails on two masts which could be struck.
  • Word Usage
    "The periagua is a strange rough boat, but the crew were still stranger: I doubt if six uglier little men ever got into a boat together."
    Variant
    pirogue   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    point    rowing-boat    batteaux    tagapagsalin    pirogues