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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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When he unfolded his mantle, he saw that the coracle was already far from Iona.
They developed modern mathematics, glorious architecture and navigated the world when St Patrick was gadding about in a leather coracle.
It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.
In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle, trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
Reepicheep hops into his coracle and paddles over the wave to the paradise beyond.
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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