coracle

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Coracles had plied the Mesopotamian waterways since time immemorial, transporting man and animal in perfect safety, for whatever happened in a coracle it would never sink.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2014

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

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

Why called "coracle" is a matter of doubt and dispute; by most admitted as a derivative from the Latin corum—a skin; this being its original covering.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne