What is "coracles"

Usage examples of "coracles".

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.

The crew then gathered hundreds of these and they were ferried in coracles to the anchored ships, where they were added to the diminished larders.

They would have to carry the coracles to the sea or wait till after dark when the tide returned.

The coracles moved away around the sandbar and again disappeared into the green shadows of the shore.

They repaired and made coracles, and began to fish again in the bay and the rivers.

On the riverbank a hundred yards away lay his little fleet of coracles with their cargoes, and a big, new two-wheeled wagon.

Indeed, Madoc had ordered a wooden tumbrel wagon made to carry the accumulating treasures and foods, for the coracles were full.

Danna, being princesses, were carried along the riverside paths in sedan chairs, each borne on the shoulders of two strong men, and were thus spared the indignity and discomfort of walking, or lolling in the coracles where bilge water and sunlight would have soiled and freckled them.

The coracles moved slowly along the sun-flashing green water, pulled by their durable paddlers.

Several such shouting, groaning mishaps had slowed the ascent and damaged three coracles by early afternoon of this cool day.