pirogue
- n a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
- He had been on the river in his pirogue, he said, when its bow was seized by the powerful jaws of a crocodile and the boat overturned.
- Sitting in the centre of his pirogue, with one leg doubled under him, Adam Billiot furiously dug in his homemade paddle when he heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard .
- Suspicion was first aroused when two fishermen left Port-of-Spain in an outboard-powered pirogue on a calm day and never came back.