Crossword clues for coracle
coracle
- One-person boat made with animal hides
- Small boat made of wickerwork
- A small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame
- Still used in some parts of Great Britain
- British boat
- Small round boat of skin over a wicker frame
- Small craft with a carbon line in the centre
- Boat made from carbon, sign of things to come
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coracle \Cor"a*cle\, n. [W. corwgl, cwrwgl, fr. corwg, cwrwg, any round body or vessel, the trunk of the body, carcass.] A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Tibet and in Egypt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"round boat of wicker, coated with skins," 1540s (the thing is described, but not named, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from 9c.), from Welsh corwgl, from corwg, cognate with Gaelic curachan, Middle Irish curach "boat," which probably is the source of Middle English currock "coracle" (mid-15c.). The name is perhaps from the hides that cover it (see corium).
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A small, circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a man's back.
WordNet
n. a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain
Wikipedia
The coracle is a small, roundish shaped, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales but also in parts of Western and South West England, Ireland (particularly the River Boyne), and Scotland (particularly the River Spey); the word is also used of similar boats found in India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet. The word "coracle" comes from the Welsh cwrwgl, cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic currach, and is recorded in English as early as the sixteenth century. Other historical English spellings include corougle, corracle, curricle and coricle.
Usage examples of "coracle".
Even the skin and withy coracle, normally used to hold a caulker working around a larger vessel, was fine by him.
He and Hoh Vitt had taken a coracle along the shore, past the lush pundi rice paddies and out into open water, beyond the seaweed colonies.
While Jahdo beached the coracle properly she stood looking up the winding path that led twixt white buildings to the summit.
By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.
There were always people swimming off the new quay or splashing about in coracles and small boats, and men working at the fish traps and the shoals at the mouth of the shallow Breas where razorshell mussels were cultivated, and divers hunting for urchins and abalone amongst the holdfasts of stands of giant kelp whose long blades formed vast brown slicks on the surface of the river.
He had his little coracle lowered and paddled himself about in it till the Monopods were thoroughly interested.
There was the new quay which ran across the mudflats and stands of zebra grass of the old, silted harbor to the retreating edge of the Great River, where the fisherfolk of the floating islands gathered in their little coracles to sell strings of oysters and mussels, spongy parcels of red river moss, bundles of riverweed stipes, and shrimp and crabs and fresh fish.
Others leaped into coracles and used their spears as paddles, but no coracle could match a reed punt for speed and so we left them far behind.
For a moment Jonathan considered the possibility of tieing up to one of the pilings twenty or thirty feet off shore and paddling the coracle ashore.
Madoc expected she could navigate far up this river before it would be necessary to launch the coracles for further exploration.
The boatmen pad-lied several yards out behind the ship, the weight of the anchor making their itde coracles ride deep in the water.
And so, with a glance back at the beached and guarded coracles, he turned and led his men deeper into the heart of the village.
Madoc could not turn his face from the assault even long enough to touch one of the coracles behind him.
The coracles, drifting off the beach during the mayhem of the battle, were a few feet offshore, bobbing empty and light.
Women and children screamed at the sight of the flapping sail above them and tried to crowd all at once into the shelter under the coracles on the forecastle.