coracle
Example Sentences
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The Welsh government said: "The Tywi is one of Wales' most important rivers, supporting internationally important habitats and species, local communities, recreation and cultural traditions such as coracle fishing."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Coracles had plied the Mesopotamian waterways since time immemorial, transporting man and animal in perfect safety, for whatever happened in a coracle it would never sink.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2014
This interest in linking past and present filtered into her research: she went on archaeological digs and hand-made a coracle of the type her characters would have used.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010
“A kayak is not a galleon, ark, coracle or speedboat,” read the motto printed with each issue.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2010
Being on an island, about fifteen miles from the Beagle, their plan was as necessary as it was ingenious: though certainly something more like a canoe than a coracle could have been paddled faster.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
