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Synonyms for piragua


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pi-rah-gwuh, -rag-wuh
Phonetic Transcription : pɪˈrɑ gwə, -ˈræg wə



Définition of piragua

  • As in canoe : noun light, paddled boat
Example sentences :
  • It was one of the English boats, which had mistaken them for a Spanish piragua.
  • Extract from : « The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) » by Walter Thornbury
  • The fifth, of 50 tons, with a piragua, fell to the lot of Captain Coxen.
  • Extract from : « The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) » by Walter Thornbury
  • All day we fought like bull dogs, but they burnt the booms at night, And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight.
  • Extract from : « The English in the West Indies » by James Anthony Froude
  • An awning of brilliant cloths, running from stem to stern over the piragua, overshadowed and almost hid the rowers.
  • Extract from : « The Infidel, Vol. I. » by Robert Montgomery Bird
  • From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today.
  • Extract from : « Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia » by Cerinda W. Evans
  • Ageros's description of the construction of a piragua cannot be improved.
  • Extract from : « Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 » by Robert FitzRoy
  • Sawkins, whose canoe was disabled, went next into the piragua to meet Peralta, leaving the four canoes to harass the admiral.
  • Extract from : « The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) » by Walter Thornbury

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