单词 | pirogue |
释义 | piroguen. U.S. regional (chiefly southern) and Caribbean. Originally: a long narrow canoe hollowed from the trunk of a single tree; = piragua n. 1. Subsequently also: any of various kinds of canoe or small open boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > other types of canoe pirogue1666 dory1709 Montreal canoe1793 waka1807 tandem canoe1867 Rob Roy1868 canot du maître1872 Peterborough1882 snake-boat1882 shadow canoe1883 tandem1884 buckeye1885 Canader1893 vinta1900 bellum1901 spoon canoe1907 sponson canoe1911 ratting canoe1944 tarada1960 canot du nord1961 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 39 The Caribbians will of one trunk make those long shallops called pyrages. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 66 Pyrogues..large Canoos, very long and made of one single tree, hollowed. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 206 The Savages..transport Plants in their Pyrogs. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1796) II. iv. 161 Their pirogues or war boats are so large as to carry forty or fifty men. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pirogue... In modern usage in America, a narrow ferry-boat carrying two masts and a lee board. 1860 E. Domenech 7 Years' Resid. Deserts N. Amer. II. 276 Canoes are of three sorts: piroques, made of the stem of a single tree; small boats lined with buffalo hide..; and lastly the canoe properly so called. 1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 851/1 She is what they call a pirogue here [i.e. in the West Indies].., she has a long narrow hull, two masts, no deck: she has usually a crew of five, and can carry thirty barrels of tafia. 1926 I. S. Cobb Some United States xi. 264 A little later four husky chaps in pirogues ranged up alongside us. 1954 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Mar. 9/1 French-speaking trappers paddle pirogues through backwater bayous of Louisiana in search of muskrat. 1988 M. Matura Playboy of West Indies 63 Is your daughter he bamboozle an stop us from sharing de spoils of a fleet a three twelve foot pirogues and dozens a thirsty Coppra Cutters an fisherman. 1995 Sun-Sentinel (Fort-Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 3 Sept. 12 A rustic fishing village where the wooden pirogues routinely return with catches of a variety of sharks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1666 |
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