Their Celtic descendants still use canvas coracles in parts of Wales and Ireland, just as the Eskimos still use skin-covered kayaks and oomiaks.
For two thousand years Eastern fleets and armies tried to conquer Europe.
Some took to the water, but coracles had been sent down to the point the evening before, and they were speedily slain.
The framework for many coracles had been woven of withies by the women, and the skins of all the cattle killed were utilized as coverings, so that by the end of the two months they had quite a fleet of little craft of this kind.
The coracles are a sort of basket made of willow twigs, covered with pitched canvass or raw hide, and resembling in form the section of a walnut-shell.
Coracles are seldom seen so high up the river as this; but we mention them here because the hero of Gilpin's often repeated anecdote was an inhabitant of Wilton.
They painted their bodies with Woad, and, seated in their lightcoracles of skin stretched upon slender wooden frames, must have presented a wild and savage appearance.
Bishop Whitehead has recently [2] placed on record his experiences of coracles as a means of conveyance.
Mingling with the crowd they went to the river's edge, where numerous wooden canoes and coracles were busily engaged in ferrying the people over.
For fishing he gave pre-eminence to Kingsley, and together they carried up their coracles to waters higher than ordinary boats could reach.
When an Indian with a spit lip got you with a stone at about five yards there were two coracles on each side of us.
There may be passages between many if not all, but it is self-evident that navigation is far too risky for the small coraclesof the natives.
She broke her leg when one of half a dozen coracles was upset, and the brutes simply left her there to die, as they were in such a dashed hurry to go for the supposed loot of a wrecked ship.
It looks like one of the native coracles Alec has told us of.
The coracles were strung out in an irregular line, covering a width of about four hundred yards, and, in laying his plans, Maseden recalled the strategy of a certain great admiral.
They paid the net out in a semi-circle, and then, beating the water with their paddles, they closed and completed the circle; and with their coraclesside by side hauled their net in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coracles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
