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currachs

currachs is the plural of currach.

Meaning of currach

Noun

currach (plural currachs)

  1. An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
    • Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 53

Questions about currachs

What is currachs the plural of?
Currachs is the plural of currach.

Words near currachs in the dictionary

  1. curr
  2. Curra Creek
  3. currabingo
  4. Currabubula
  5. currach
  6. currachs
  7. curragh
  8. curraghs
  9. Currah
  10. Currahs
  11. currajong

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