CORACLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coracle mean? 

• CORACLE (noun)
  The noun CORACLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CORACLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORACLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("coracle" is a kind of...):

small boat (a boat that is small)

 Context examples 

I sprang to my feet and leaped, stamping the coracle under water.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The breeze had but little action on the coracle, and I was almost instantly swept against the bows of the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the great advantage of the coracle it certainly possessed, for it was exceedingly light and portable.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Immensely tall she looked to me from my low station in the coracle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)