PIROGUE
Pirogue
A pirogue can be one of several kinds of small boats. One is the small, flat-bottomed boat of a design associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. These boats are not usually intended for overnight travel but are light and small enough to be easily taken onto land. The design also allows the pirogue to move through the very shallow water of marshes and be easily turned over to drain any water that may get into the boat. A pirogue has "hard chines" which means that instead of a smooth curve from the gunwales to the keel, there is often a flat bottom which meets the plane of the side. The pirogue is usually propelled by paddles that ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Pirogue
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pirogue
Noun
- 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.
- A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.
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