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See also:PIROGUE, or PIRAGUA (the See also:French and See also:Spanish forms respectively of a Caribbean word for this type of See also:vessel; it has at various times taken many corrupt forms, e.g. periagua, pettiaugua, pettyoagar) , originally the native name of a See also:vessel made by hollowing out the See also:trunk of a See also:tree, a " dug-out "; hence applied to many different developments of this type of vessel used in the See also:West Indies and along the See also:American See also:coast . An See also:early improvement was to split the " dug-out " into two sections and insert a See also:flat bottom of planking to widen it; another See also:form had a leeboard, was decked in at either end, and had two masts . |
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