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Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Pirogue
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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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 made by hollowing out the trunk of a tree, a " dug-out hence applied to many different developments of this type of vessel used in the West Indies and along the American coast. An early improvement was to split the " dug-out " into two sections and insert a flat 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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pirogue'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pirogue.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pirogue'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pirogue.html. 1910.
