curragh

variants or currach

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • The bulk of the trip was focused on searching for wildlife during skiff rides along the shores and on a walk in the jungle.
    Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 21 Oct. 2025
  • On Monday morning, Duane and Bill took the skiff to the far side of the lake.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His collection included woodland pots from North America, Aztec stone figurines and obsidian blades, a canoe from South America, Indigenous stone tools and weapons, Taino artifacts, an ancient Roman mosaic fragment, and Chinese pottery and armor.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Book a Hawaiian outrigger canoe trip at sunrise to watch dolphins.
    Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Irish claim centers on St Brendan, who in the sixth century is said to have sailed to America in his coracle.
    Gordon Campbell, Time, 29 June 2021
Noun
  • Dozens have died in recent years trying to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in overcrowded dinghies.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • An additional autonomous dinghy could serve as the above water collection point.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.
    John Oseid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
  • The shallop, by contrast, was meant for shallow water where larger ships couldn’t venture.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
Noun
  • The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In a startling revelation, the crew members aboard this intergalactic garbage scow turn out to be the descendants of American astronauts launched 200 years earlier during humanity's pre-warp, post-World War III days.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate in a rowboat in Scotland in 1903.Courtesy Collection of Alice Austen House But when the 1929 stock market crash caught Austen in the crosshairs, her financial standing plummeted.
    Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Another sweet photo showed the couple spending time together in a rowboat on the lake.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Curragh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curragh. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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