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Pirogue meaning
A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log. | A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. | A boat-shaped food that is stuffed with seafood.
Synonyms of Pirogue
Example sentences (9)
He had helped to search for bodies from the pirogue that hit the rocks.
Towing it wouldn’t work, so the Spanish boat began reeling in the pirogue and pulling survivors onto the Zillarri.
The Coast Guard vessel used a loud hailer to signal the pirogue to stop.
The little pirogue sank’.
The ten metre long pirogue overturned and sank near Patos Island, near the Dragon’s Mouth on April 23.
A popular one, first proposed by Fr. David Boilat (1853), was that "Senegal" comes from the Wolof phrase sunu gaal, meaning "our canoe" (more precisely, "our pirogue ").
Handcrafted vessels were a common mode of travel across the river, and the pirogue and bateaux were also used.
One popular theory (proposed by David Boilat in 1853) is that it stems from the Wolof phrase sunu gaal, which means "our canoe" (or pirogue ), resulting from a miscommunication between 15th-century Portuguese sailors and Wolof fishermen.
The Cajun "pirogue" is an example of a craft with hard chines.