Perogue vs. Pirogue

Peroguenoun

See Pirogue.

Piroguenoun

A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log.

Piroguenoun

A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made out of a four-foot by eight-foot piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-foot eight-inch-wide eight-foot-long pointed-end lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval.

Piroguenoun

A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over.

Piroguenoun

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

Piroguenoun

a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log

Pirogue

A pirogue ( or ), also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which comes from the Carib piraua.