PIROGUE, or PIRAGUA (the

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• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and

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• SPANISH

Spanish forms respectively of a Caribbean word for this type of

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• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

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 .