pirn (pern)

[ Pyrne of a webstarys lome, pan us. IMG:content-0254.png:[blocks in formation] Pirog off's operation. See operation. pirogue (pi-rog'), n. [Also perogue; G. pirogue = = Dan. piroge roga; Sw. pirog , pir ok = It. Pg . pi A number of officers, with three hundred and twenty soldiers, twenty women, and seventeen children, left Orleans on the 27th of February, under the command of an officer named Loftus, in ten boats and two pirogues . Gayarré, Hist. Louisiana, II. 102. The earliest improvement upon the canoe was the Pi rogue , an invention of the whites. Like the canoe, this is hewed out of the solid log; the difference is that the pi rogue has greater width and capacity, and is composed of several pieces of timber-as if the canoe was sawed in two equal sections and a broad flat piece of timber inserted in the middle, so as to give greater breadth of beam to the ve el. This was probably the identical proce by which Europe ans, unable procure planks to build boats, began in the first instance to enlarge canoes to suit their purJames Hall , Notes on the Western States (1838), p. 218. On rounding a point a pirogue , skilfully paddled by a youth, shot out. poses. S. L. Clemens , Life on the Mi i ippi, App. A, p. 597. The white and the red man were on most friendly terms, and the birch canoe and pirogue were seen carrying, in mixed company, both races. W. Barrows , Oregon, p. 39. 2. Same as periagua, 3. Pirogue. In modern usage in America, a narrow ferryboat, carrying two masts and a leeboard. Webster, 1828. She is what they call a pirogue here [West Indies), but not at all what is called a pirogue in the United States: she has a long narrow hull, two masts, no deck: she has usually a crew of five, and can carry thirty barrels of tafia. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 851. piscatory