PIROGUE, or PIRAGUA (the French and Spanish forms respectively of a Caribbean word for this type of vessel; it has at various times taken many corrupt forms, e.g. periagua, pettiaugua, pettyoagar)

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PIROGUE, or PIRAGUA (the French and Spanish forms respectively of a Caribbean word for this type of vessel; it has at various times taken many corrupt forms, e.g. periagua, pettiaugua, pettyoagar) , originally the native name of a

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas,
vase
- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl.
  vasa
  - VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD
  , of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
, urn)

made by hollowing out the trunk of a tree, a " dug-out "; hence applied to many different developments of this type of

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas,
vase
- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl.
  vasa
  - VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD
  , of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
, urn)

used in the West Indies and along the

American

AMERICAN

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib,
side
- SIDE
- SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)
)

. An early improvement was to split the " dug-out " into two sections and insert a

flat

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

bottom of planking to widen it; another form had a leeboard, was decked in at either end, and had two masts.

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