coracle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coracle
1540–50; < Welsh corwgl, corwg; akin to Irish curach boat; currach
Example Sentences
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“Sail ships, fishing boats, coracles. I’m happiest in boats or in libraries —those are my places.”
From Literature
On the beach, men and women talked in the lilting tones of spoken Vietnamese while repairing circular coracles, the basket-like boats that have been used here for centuries.
From New York Times
He writes: “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
From The Guardian
The experience was so fulfilling I made a second trip the following winter, travellingthrough Wales in a coracle.
From The Guardian
Their boats were coracles woven of reed, and it was a brave sailor who would go as far as Gosk or Kornay in such a craft.
From Literature
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