How To Use Coracle In A Sentence
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The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
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In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
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As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature.
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He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
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The umbrella consists of a large hood, much like the ancient boat called a coracle, which being placed over the head reaches to the thighs behind.
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He wrote a very funny piece about going on a boat from Naples to Capri, and when all the tourists went into the Blue Grotto in tiny coracles, he remained on the boat, thinking how nice it would be if they never came out again.
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He sat as though paralyzed in the coracle, which drifted in the shallows a dozen ells away.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle.
TV highlights 21/07/2011: Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | John Oliver's New York | BBC Proms 2011: Mark Elder Conducts The Hallé | Art Of Survival | Shameless US
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In the past two years, I have worked on a Welsh hill farm in lambing season, joined a male choir and competed at the National Eisteddfod, learned to row a coracle, been down one of the last Welsh coal mines, sent my middle-aged body out to train with Cardiff rugby players half my age.
My quest to be more Welsh
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It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.
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He knelt there rocking to-and-fro in the flimsy coracle, the waves almost coming over its sides, he legs becoming numb with cold and tried to remember.
A Sorcerous Mist
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They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
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At the edge of the deeper water he climbed down and helped himself to a coracle tied to a piling.
A TIME OF WAR
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Finished coracles are also delivered complete with a handcrafted priest or knocker used to humanely kill caught fish as a reminder that you are purchasing a historical fishing craft rather than a recreational toy.
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The coracle is a circular basket boat, covered with buffalo hide or black plastic sheets.
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They cover subjects such as Sports and Pastimes (Furry Dance, coracle fishing), 'Our Heritage of Skill '(The Cheese Maker, The Hand-Block Printer), and 'Our National Parks'.
Being Bould
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Coracles are paddled, or more correctly sculled, not to the stern but rather toward the bow using a figure-eight stroke.
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Demonstrations taking place include basket makers, corn dollies, stick making, coracle maker, greenwood workers, blacksmith, spoon carver, spinners and weavers.
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As they were tying up the coracle, a handful of militiamen surrounded them.
A TIME OF WAR
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In under a decade, the steam yacht would be as passé as the coracle…
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The timber was accompanied on its way by men in coracles who then walked the 40 miles back from the sea.
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The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
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Dairy, cattle, and sheep farming still thrive, and the Welsh still fish in their traditional boats - called coracles - constructed from willow and hazel branches covered with hide.
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I am confused about 'corach' which the OED knows as an alternative spelling of 'currach' or 'coracle' - a small wicker boat used in ancient times in Scotland and Ireland - hardly the usage here.
The Old Foodie
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Sixth century monks in leather coracles knew this, so too did Vikings of the 9th and 10th centuries and Gaeilc-speaking descendants in galleys and birlinns.
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This skin boat or coracle or currach still survives on the rivers of Wales and the west coast of
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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‘And these were everywhere,’ he laments nostalgically, pointing to the Irish-looking coracle lashed under the furled rust sails.
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They developed modern mathematics, glorious architecture and navigated the world when St Patrick was gadding about in a leather coracle.
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The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
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In the mid 1990s he began to research the methods of coracle building used by the craftsmen coracle makers of rural Wales.
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In many places in India the traditional Coracle is made by blowing up the skin of a dead buffalo, stitching it together and sitting on it like using a large float.
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In the river valleys Welsh fishermen used coracles until quite recently (there were coracle users on the River Severn until the 1930s).
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From Hampi, round, flat-bottomed boats called coracles ferry people across the river to a rocky jetty, but that is only the beginning of the trip to the Anjanadri temple.
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I also happen to feel, or rather, I did, that "coracle" was an especially lovely old word.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4
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So you type, under the definition box, ` small boat 'and every word in the English language that -- that has ` small boat' in the definition -- you know, coracle, skiff, batteau or whatever -- appears.
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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I'd once built a crude coracle from hazel sticks bound together with string and covered in an old tent fly sheet; it had worked but I felt that I still had plenty to learn.
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So whilst Tim was whisking around in tight circles in his own, go-faster-striped coracle, his pupils were still pulling on old jeans, swimming costumes or wetsuits.
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Hire a coracle, a buffalo-hide-and-wicker boat, or wade over.
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The falls is mainly divided into three sections and can be reached with the help of rafts known as coracles.
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A circular bamboo boat lined with buffalo hide, the coracle is a common means of transport on the Kabini and Kaveri rivers.
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A circular boat, woven with bamboo and lined with buffalo hide, the coracle offers a leisurely drift, allowing you to watch hornbills flying against the darkening sky, returning to nest in the tall trees close to the river.
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They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
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At Tim's house, a remote fishing lodge on the upper reaches of the river, the coracles were carried down to the water's edge.
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If the passage is safe, we will follow in the second coracle.
A Sorcerous Mist
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We must hide until it is dark, and then I will steal a coracle and row you to the Drowned Forest.
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As they were tying up the coracle, a handful of militiamen surrounded them.
A TIME OF WAR
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He saw one of my handmade laundry baskets, and he remarked that it reminded him of a miniature version of the boats, or coracles, his uncle once had built in Ireland.
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The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
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They seem to have gone away in those two coracles that were fastened on either side of the deckhouse.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Reepicheep hops into his coracle and paddles over the wave to the paradise beyond.
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The great thing about the coracles is that if you do hook a big fish that takes you down rapids you can go after them by boat, rather than simply jumping in and swimming!
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Getting a body from river into a coracle is a tricky business, but he had practised it so long that he had it perfect, balance and heft and all, from his first grasp on the billowing sleeve to the moment when the little boat bobbed like a cork and spun like a drifting leaf, with the drowned man in-board and streaming water.
A Rare Benedictine
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Higher up on the hillside, with a tall grove and a holly bush at its back, Nash has constructed a shelter like a coracle, a hazel bender sprung on a foundation cruck frame of a bow of oak made from a single limb sawn lengthwise in four, with a matt-black canvas skin stretched over the woven wood, a small stove and an ingenious beak-like chimney, like the spout of a jug.
Wildwood
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On firmer ground is coracle, which occurs in Salesbury's Dictionary in English and Welsh (1547) as the English equivalent of kwrwgyl ` round boat, 'and the archaeological term cromlech, which is used in Owen's Pembrokeshire
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
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In under a decade, the steam yacht would be as passé as the coracle…
