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What is a coracle?

What is a coracle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.
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They developed modern mathematics, glorious architecture and navigated the world when St Patrick was gadding about in a leather coracle.
He is probably the last man who can still construct the ancient hide-covered type of coracle.
A circular bamboo boat lined with buffalo hide, the coracle is a common means of transport on the Kabini and Kaveri rivers.
Hire a coracle, a buffalo-hide-and-wicker boat, or wade over.
When he unfolded his mantle, he saw that the coracle was already far from Iona.
It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.

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