(n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Druid Chris Parks rows his homemade coracle on the upper Thames.
(2) They used to lose so many balls to the river that they even employed a local coracle maker - Fred Davies - to sit in one of his boats during matches and retrieve any that wound up in the water.
(3) They used to lose so many balls to the river that they even employed a local coracle maker – Fred Davies – to sit in one of his boats during matches and retrieve any that wound up in the water.