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Coracle   /kˈɔrəkəl/   Listen
Coracle

noun
1.
A small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain.






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"Coracle" Quotes from Famous Books



... caressed her as a living thing,—and how they slept on the calm deep on summer nights, whilst phosphor-laden waves lapped around them, and only the dim dawn, with her cold, red finger woke them to life? And was it not told with pride and terror in every coracle along the coast with what fierce exultation he took her out on stormy days, and headed her straight against the billows, that broke into courtesies on every side, and how she leaped up the walls of water which ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... can do it. Oh, how one longs for it sometimes when life grows too artificial, and the old Viking blood begins to stir! Surely it must linger in all of us, for no man who dwells in an island but had an ancestor in longship or in coracle. Still more must the salt drop tingle in the blood of an American when you reflect that in all that broad continent there is not one whose forefather did not cross 3000 miles of ocean. And yet there are in the Central States millions ...
— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle



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