Meaning of periagua | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dugout canoe.
2. A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank.
3. 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.
4. Any small boat.
   broadly

Examples

“That there were ſeventeen bearded Men there, and therefore, without any more Delay, I went to work with Friday to find out a great Tree proper to fell, and make a large Periagua or Canoe to undertake the Voyage.”

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