Crossword-Solution: CORACLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coracle | 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. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “CORACLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| It's similar to a kayak | 1 answer |
| Welsh fishing boat. | 1 answer |
| Welsh boat | 1 answer |
| WICKERWORK boat | 1 answer |
| Traditional rounded boat with wicker frame | 1 answer |
| Small rowing boat of wicker and hide | 1 answer |
| Small round boat | 1 answer |
| Small primitive boat | 1 answer |
| Small hide-bottomed boat | 1 answer |
| Small boat made of wickerwork | 1 answer |
| Small English boat | 1 answer |
| Run down and sunk in "Treasure Island." | 1 answer |
| One-person boat made with animal hides | 1 answer |
| Leather-hulled boat | 1 answer |
| Initially carry great authority, a typically Welsh craft | 1 answer |
| Canvas boat. | 1 answer |
| Boat of wicker and skins | 1 answer |
| Boat of the British Isles. | 1 answer |
| BRITON boat, ancient | 1 answer |
| ANCIENT canoe | 1 answer |
| curragh | 2 answers |
| currach | 2 answers |
| BRITISH boat | 4 answers |
| A SMALL ROUNDED BOAT MADE OF HIDES STRETCHED OVER A WICKER FRAME | 10 answers |
| Small boat | 12 answers |
| fishing boat | 12 answers |
| Boat | 51 answers |
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Sentences with CORACLE (5)
The ebb was just beginning to make round the point, and sent us all ways at once like a coracle.’ ‘Selsey Bill,’ said Puck under his breath.
Moreover, no good fisherman but knows, to his sorrow, that there are plenty of minutes, ay, hours, in each day’s fishing in which he would be right glad of any employment better than trying to “Call spirits from the vasty deep,” who will not “Come when you do call for them.” What to do, then? You are sitting, perhaps, in your coracle, upon some mountain tarn, waiting for a wind, and waiting in vain.
The fisherman, plying his coracle on the Thames will behold the consecration of the great new Abbey of Westminster celebrated with mass and chant and awful lights in the dead mid-noon of night by that Apostle who is the Rock of the Church.
The gradual development of the huge coracle into a ship would have been encouraged by the Semitic use of the term "ship" to describe it; and the attempt to retain something of its original proportions resulted in producing the unwieldy ark of later tradition.(1) (1) The description of the ark is not preserved from the earlier Hebrew Version (J), but the latter Hebrew Version (P), while increasing the length of the vessel, has considerably reduced its height and breadth.
And so its memory survived in the picture of Ziusudu's solitary coracle upon the face of the waters, which, seen through the mists of the Deluge tradition, has given us the Noah's ark of our nursery days.
Quotes with CORACLE (2)
But your own tears blind you to mine. I am not neglectful of friendship, but we two squat in the same coracle, we are both swamped by the same stormy waters, I have not the gifts of a happy man. . . Often enough.
Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and then sink away and some we hook out and others we ignore. And as the pattern changes so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time that returns everything, changes everything. ..a bundle of abandoned clothes. The end of one identity and the beginning of another. …History is a madman's museum. I think I understan…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1950–2012).