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Word: pirogue (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A style of pasta shaped as miniature canoe folded over.
  • A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.
  • A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made of one four-feet by eight-feet piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-feet eight-inches wide eight-feet long pointed-ends lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being comprised of the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval.

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