Definitions for piraguas

piraguas pi·ra·gua

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

Piraguas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in piraguas (aagiprsu).

Definitions for piraguas

noun

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

Origin of piraguas

1525-35; Spanish Carib: dugout

Examples for piraguas

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for piraguas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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