coracle

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The breeze had but little action on the coracle, and I was almost instantly swept against the bows of the _Hispaniola_.

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  1. noun A small rounded boat made of waterproof material stretched over a wicker or wooden frame.

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  • About twenty ells away, a leather coracle was drawn up on the strand, one of the lightweight watercraft with whalebone frames that the smaller Tarnian sailing boats often used as tenders. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • He sat as though paralyzed in the coracle, which drifted in the shallows a dozen ells away. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • It was not until Taian and Clabbus returned in the coracle, towing the boy's empty craft behind them, that they raised their voices. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • Clabbus tossed a looped rope to his coracle, drew it in and tied the two boats together; then he seized the pole and started moving away from the intersection, down the avenue that had brought them here. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • I noticed that a pram, a small rowboat, and a nearby river coracle were no longer moving. —  dummy 3
 

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  1. Welsh corwgl, from Middle Irish curach, from Old Irish.

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  1. from Welsh corwgl, also cwrwgl, a coracle, from corwg, cwrwg, a frame, carcass, boat, = Irish curachan, a skiff: see currach.
 

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/ˈkɑrəkl/
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