pirogue

• Levin was the natural choice to lead the survey team; not only had he designed and built the single-mast pirogue, the Lady of Huntsville, which the team used for the trip, but he had also been on the ill-fated Montero Expedition that crossed the Eastern Divide three years before Sand Creek was still running high, so the pirogue made it through the Shapiro Pass without any difficulties. —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
• Navigate the island's aquamarine lagoon in a free kayak or traditional Polynesian oar boat, called a pirogue.
• "You must go on a pirogue, an outrigger canoe," he urges, white-haired, deeply tanned, with a rounded belly that suggests he enjoys life in his corner of paradise.
• They launched their pirogue, and succeeded in getting close enough to the wreck to identify her as the missing Kingston Trader_, and also to ascertain that she had been on fire, most of her upper works having been consumed. —  A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• The pirogue was a very quaint-looking craft, of about twenty feet in length by some five feet beam, formed out of a solid log of wood which had been roughly trimmed with an axe to form the bottom portion of her, with a couple of planks above to form her top sides. —  The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection

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