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  • noun Plural form of coracle.

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Examples

  • If it cant then there is an inexorable decline in consumption patterns and maybe also standards of living in a country that cant keep up unless the UK wants to specialise in coracles and cricket bats.

    War of words breaks out over interest rates at the MPC 2011

  • We have two coracles we use for ferrying to shore and such.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • They tied long, thin ropes to each of the small, circular, animal-hide coracles and lowered them into the water.

    A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • We have two coracles we use for ferrying to shore and such.

    A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • They tied long, thin ropes to each of the small, circular, animal-hide coracles and lowered them into the water.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • Ælian makes them 16 cubits long near Taprobane and serving as house-roofs; and others turn the shell into boats and coracles.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He said that next Saturday, the first day of the coracle fishing season which runs to the end of July, he would take out his coracles in protest.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • Consequently the place is aswarm with them, arriving and departing in every kind of boat from Chinese junks and ancient steamers to feluccas and coracles.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • Having seen their boats, crazy coracles of woven bulrushes that were perma nently waterlogged, I was happy to continue our journey on foot.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • Where there were osier beds and coracles paddling through a swamp, there is this; and she thought of the dry, thick, well built house stored with valuables, humming with people coming close to each other, going away from each other, exchanging their views, stimulating each other.

    A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

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