coracle
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrəkəl/
- UK
- Spring's first day was a warm, sweet song, a time of companionable silences and comfortably shared labor in Mahon O'Dere's coracle.
Examples
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The fisherman paddled quietly in his coracle as he searched for fish in the calm waters.
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Clabbus brought his coracle closer to the hunter's boat, and one of them stepped in beside him.
Fiction book (1995) -
Was she the woman who went round Britain in a coracle for leukaemia?
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As an afterthought, I dove under the coracle and found a line hanging loose in the water.
Fiction book (1991) -
I turned to the coracle and found a fisherman still clinging to it.
Fiction book (1991) -
Welsh coracles and water cycles could be hired for the specially built boating lake.
Academic text (1990) -
Coracles are very light, being only greased oxhide stretched over a frame of split ash.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was not until Taian and Clabbus returned in the coracle, towing the boy's empty craft behind them, that they raised their voices.
Fiction book (1995) -
In Wales, traditional coracles are often made from willow and covered with animal hides.
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During a summer festival, we watched a demonstration of people racing their coracles down the river.
Synonyms
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A small light boat with a wooden frame covered in animal skin or cloth used in Ireland and Scotland
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word coracle comes from a Welsh word meaning 'basket'. A coracle is like a small, round basket turned into a light boat by stretching animal hide or cloth over a wicker frame, so the name fits its shape and how it was used.