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coracle

[kawr-uh-kuhl, kor-] / ˈkɔr ə kəl, ˈkɒr- /
NOUN
canoe
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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

He was a foundling, discovered in his infancy lying in a coracle on a salmon weir, in the domain of Elphin, a prince of North Wales, who became his patron. 

From The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition by George Henry Borrow


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