coracle

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Others go to Morwen Pugh, founder and conductor of Côr Meibion Talgarth male voice choir in Powys and Carmarthenshire coracle fisherman Raymond Rees.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2010

Jeep and boat safaris are available, or try a traditional coracle ride, from which you might spot a crocodile.

From Time • Dec. 9, 2010

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 Fitzroy, Robert