coracle
IPA: kˈɔrʌkʌɫ
noun
- (nautical) A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.
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Examples of "coracle" in Sentences
- The coracle was smashed on landing.
- An annual coracle regatta is held on the Teme.
- The coracle was smashed on launching in the second attempt.
- Other attractions in the town include annual coracle races.
- If the passage is safe, we will follow in the second coracle.
- Coracle fishing can be performed by either one or two coraclers.
- The canoe is unique much like the coracle is unique and of elsh design.
- The coracle is a circular basket boat, covered with buffalo hide or black plastic sheets.
- I also happen to feel, or rather, I did, that "coracle" was an especially lovely old word.
- The umbrella consists of a large hood, much like the ancient boat called a coracle, which being placed over the head reaches to the thighs behind.
- He knelt there rocking to-and-fro in the flimsy coracle, the waves almost coming over its sides, he legs becoming numb with cold and tried to remember.
- They cover subjects such as Sports and Pastimes (Furry Dance, coracle fishing), 'Our Heritage of Skill '(The Cheese Maker, The Hand-Block Printer), and 'Our National Parks'.
- I am confused about 'corach' which the OED knows as an alternative spelling of 'currach' or 'coracle' - a small wicker boat used in ancient times in Scotland and Ireland - hardly the usage here.
- Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle.
- In the past two years, I have worked on a Welsh hill farm in lambing season, joined a male choir and competed at the National Eisteddfod, learned to row a coracle, been down one of the last Welsh coal mines, sent my middle-aged body out to train with Cardiff rugby players half my age.
- Getting a body from river into a coracle is a tricky business, but he had practised it so long that he had it perfect, balance and heft and all, from his first grasp on the billowing sleeve to the moment when the little boat bobbed like a cork and spun like a drifting leaf, with the drowned man in-board and streaming water.