periaguaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

periagua (plural periaguas)

1. A dugout canoe.

   Synonyms: pirogue, dugout, logboat

   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 269:

     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.

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. (by extension) Any small boat.

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• pirogue