What's the difference between canoe and pirogue?

Canoe


Definition:

  • (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
  • (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
  • (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
  • (v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This involved 29 miles cycling, 12 miles running and finally 18.5 miles canoeing.
  • (2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
  • (3) There was a bit more canoeing to see on the lake after that triumph.
  • (4) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
  • (5) 2.11am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane The first fight of the night will be Mexican Pablo Cesar Cano against Britain's Ashley Theophane.
  • (6) Right now those two teams are the Royals and the Oakland Athletics , with Robinson Cano’s Seattle Mariners still alive, albeit on life-support.
  • (7) Down at the beach, there’s always a canoe arriving on shore with fresh fish; or you can hide yourself way in the pousada’s meditation lounge, content with a soundtrack of tropical birds.
  • (8) The AP’s first published results were based on samples taken along the shores of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing events will be held.
  • (9) It is the perfect environment for canoeing, with the warm weather and warm water.
  • (10) The Netherlands’ Pesse canoe dates from around 10,000 years ago.
  • (11) Canoeing and kayaking are upper-body sports that make varying demands on the body, depending on the type of contest and the distance covered.
  • (12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
  • (13) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
  • (14) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
  • (15) Twelve common Polynesian plants, 8 of which were probably brought in the canoe voyages perhaps 1500 years ago from southern and central Polynesia, constitute the most commonly used plants by Hawaiians for medicinal purposes.
  • (16) "This has transformed public policy by putting protection of life as an ultimate aim, taking police away from a victory mindset," says Cano.
  • (17) Each night brought the excitement of finding the perfect camping spot in a grassy dell or spotless beach and the opportunity to explore using the Canadian canoe that we towed behind the raft.
  • (18) On Saturday night he is on the undercard of a Floyd Mayweather pay-per-view extravaganza in boxing's capital city and, if he beats the very good young Mexican Pablo César Cano, his mentor has promised him he will do everything he can to get him a world title shot at welterweight, a hot division.
  • (19) And we used to take them canoeing and have camping holidays.
  • (20) 2.21am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane: Rounds one and two The Mexican started strongly but Theophane came back in the second half of that opening round.

Pirogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One large trawler, it is calculated, can catch as much as 250 tonnes of fish a day, roughly what 50 pirogues might catch in a year.
  • (2) We sent in our air force and they neutralised the three pirogues.
  • (3) There used to be 750 pirogues working here, but now there are 1,500."
  • (4) I’m sure that this will be the beginning of development because no one will now be afraid to come here for fishing, building a house or doing agriculture.” As a loudspeaker warns people away, fishermen paddle their pirogues to a safe distance.
  • (5) Twenty-five miles out to sea and in great danger from turbulent seas are small, open pirogues crewed by handfuls of local fishermen, taking pitifully few fish.
  • (6) Then, over a period of months, the material – mostly written in Arabic, but also centuries-old texts in Greek, Latin, French, English and German – was smuggled out on buses, cars or pirogue boats to the south on the Niger river.
  • (7) A decade ago he could catch enough in a three-day trip to fill his 30ft-long wooden pirogue; today, he and his colleagues say they are lucky to earn enough to pay the diesel for their vessels.
  • (8) They came on board three pirogues and succeeded in killing about 10 people before being pushed back by the army,” said a resident of the village of Ngouboua, about 12 miles east of the Nigerian border, to which thousands of Nigerian refugees had fled in early January after an attack on the town of Baga.

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