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pipery|ˈpɪpərɪ|
Also 9 pippiree.
[a. F. piperie (Froger, 1698). perh. = Sp. *piperia: cf. Sp. pipero cooper, f. pipa barrel.]
A native raft or float in the West Indies and S. America, of the same nature as a catamaran.
1698Froger Voy. 102 We..saw all along the [Argentine] Coast.. the Negro's Piperies [orig. de Piperies des nègres], as they are called, being no other than three or four pieces of Wood made fast together, whereon two men go out a fishing. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 216 We cut and made Piperies or Floats of four or five of these truncs, being light and floating;..they being tied together..two or three or more of them, according to the bigness of the Pipery. 1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 151 The Buccaniers..descended the river in floats or pippirees to the Atlantic. |