Editing Coracle (section)

{{Short description|Kind of boat}}
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[[File:Coracles River Teifi.jpg|thumb|The [[River Teifi]], West Wales<br />The two men are John Davies (forefront) and Will Davies of [[Cenarth]]; the last two legitimate coracle fishermen in Cenarth.<br />They are both using the single-arm method of propulsion; a means of gliding downstream in a controlled way. They carry their coracles and their fish home on their backs. (1972)]] 
A '''coracle''' is a small, rounded,<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2012 |title=Definition of coracle |encyclopedia=Collins English Dictionary |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/coracle }}</ref> lightweight [[boat]] of the sort traditionally used in [[Wales]], and also in parts of the west of [[Ireland]] and also particularly on the [[River Boyne]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans |first=E. Estyn |title=Irish Folk Ways |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |year=2000 |page=233 |isbn=978-0-486-41440-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjDPRIC6QhwC&q=boyne+coracle&pg=PA233 }}</ref> and in [[Scotland]], particularly the [[River Spey]]. The word is also used for similar boats found in [[India]], [[Vietnam]], [[Iraq]], and [[Tibet]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 November 1996 |title=The Coracle – a one person boat with an ancient lineage. |url=http://www.data-wales.co.uk/coracle1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961102033420/http://www.data-wales.co.uk/coracle1.htm |archive-date=2 November 1996 |website=data-wales.co.uk}}</ref> The word ''coracle'' is an English spelling of the original [[Welsh language|Welsh]] {{lang|cy|cwrwgl}}, cognate with [[Irish language|Irish]] and [[Scottish Gaelic]] {{lang|ga|[[currach]]}}, and is recorded in English text as early as the sixteenth century. Other historical English spellings include ''corougle'', ''corracle'', ''curricle'' and ''coricle''.