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bugeye
[ buhg-ahy ]
noun
, Nautical.
, plural bug·eyes.
- a ketch-rigged sailing vessel used on Chesapeake Bay.
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From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today.
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In essence the bugeye was a large canoe, fully decked, with a fixed rig following that of the brogan.
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When we came to the surface we noticed a "bugeye" (a small schooner) "hove to" about fifty yards to the leeward.
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The crew started forward and the Captain held the bugeye to its course to the strange island.
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