Definitions for piragua

piragua pi·ra·gua

Spelling: [pi-rah-gwuh, -rag-wuh]
IPA: /pɪˈrɑ gwə, -ˈræg wə/

Piragua is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in piragua (aagipru).

Definitions for piragua

noun

  1. Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
  2. a flat-bottomed sailing vessel having two masts.

Origin of piragua

1525-35; Spanish Carib: dugout

Examples for piragua

An awning of brilliant cloths, running from stem to stern over the piragua, overshadowed and almost hid the rowers.

All day we fought like bull dogs, but they burnt the booms at night, And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight.

It was one of the English boats, which had mistaken them for a Spanish piragua.

Sawkins, whose canoe was disabled, went next into the piragua to meet Peralta, leaving the four canoes to harass the admiral.

Ageros's description of the construction of a piragua cannot be improved.

The fifth, of 50 tons, with a piragua, fell to the lot of Captain Coxen.

From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today.

Word Value for piragua
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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