currach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of currach
1400–50; late Middle English currok < Scots Gaelic curach, Irish currach boat; coracle
Example Sentences
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The book opens with Mr. Lloyd, an English artist, heading out to sea in a fragile hand-rowed currach.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2022
Thirteen rowers left the island in a 40-foot currach, a traditional canvas boat, following the journey made by Colmcille and his followers almost 1,400 years ago.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2013
A typical one is "The Currach Race"�a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be there, with the tar on the canvas drying and cracking, until great holes appeared and the currach wasted away.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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