Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
periagua .
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Examples
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Charlestown with all they had in the greatest haste, and if their own pettiauger was not large enough to carry them, he would lend them his canoe.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Powles Hook in a pettiauger, and had her loaded with Hospital stores. "[
Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen
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