Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
piraya .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
piraya .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
piranha fish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To the rim is tied a little bunch of silk-grass and half of the jaw-bone of the fish called pirai, with which the Indian scrapes the point of his arrow.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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If you can catch 'pirai' for us like that, old fellow, just keep in our wake, and we'll give you the cleanings for wages. "
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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The quivers were close by them, with the jaw-bone of the fish pirai tied by a string to their brim and a small wicker-basket of wild cotton, which hung down to the centre; they were nearly full of poisoned arrows.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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If you can catch ‘pirai’ for us like that, old fellow, just keep in our wake, and we’ll give you the cleanings for wages.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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