Noun
periagua (plural periaguas)
- A dugout canoe.
- A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank.
- 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.
- (by extension) Any small boat.
- pirogue, an overlapping but not identical term from the French
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