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Definition of periauger

Periauger
Periauger Per"i*au"ger, n. See Pirogue. --W. Irving.
periauger
Pirogue Pi*rogue", n. [Originally an American Indian word: cf. F. pirogue, Sp. piroga, piragua.] A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]

Meaning of periauger from wikipedia

- A periauger or perogue (/pɪˈroʊg, ˈpiroʊg/) is a shallow draft, often flat-bottomed two-masted sailing vessel, often without a bowsprit, which also carried...
- borrowed $100 (equivalent to $1,900 in 2023) from his mother to purchase a periauger (a shallow draft, two-masted sailing vessel), which he christened the...
- Hornigold, West, Daniel Stillwell, and John ****ram used canoes and open periauger boats and crews of two dozen men to raid off Cuba and Florida. After several...
- Staten Island and Manhattan was conducted by private individuals in "periaugers". These shallow-draft, two-masted sailboats, used for local traffic in...
- parti****nts. Numerous slave boatmen, navigating locally constructed periauger, operated within all-black crews, ferrying rice, indigo, and provisions...
- Military Collector and Historian XLVII, 1995. "A Working Definition of 'Periauger'". Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater...
- a periauger, a row-and-sail dugout, sometimes with two masts. Mollie Sneden would have known this, and she probably began her ferry with periaugers. They...
- original on 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2009-03-05. "A brief history of the Periauger". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2009-03-20. Adams...