piragua noun. [pɪ'ragwǝ] Also periagua [pɛrɪ'agwǝ]. E17.
[Spanish from Carib = dugout. Cf. PIROGUE.]
1. A long narrow canoe hollowed from the trunk of a single tree or from the trunks of two trees fastened together. E17.

2. An open flat-bottomed schooner-rigged vessel; a kind of two-masted sailing barge. M17.

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