coracle
Example Sentences
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Off the Aran Islands, fishermen still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The coracles are a sort of basket made of willow twigs, covered with pitched canvass or raw hide, and resembling in form the section of a walnut-shell.
From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch
The public bellams plied to and fro, rowed by the swart owners, while against them jostled the gufas—built like the coracles of ancient Britain—a round basket coated with pitch.
From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit
And when I find that tattooed and nearly naked people used coracles, and do not find that they used anything grander, I am led to suspect they did not.
