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Coracle :: 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..

Pibcorn :: Pibcorn (n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales..

Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Rowlock :: Rowlock (n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar..

March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..

Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales..

Cetewale :: Cetewale (n.) Same as Zedoary.

Lyre Bird :: Lyre bird () Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail..

Cambrian :: Cambrian (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales.

Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..

Waling :: Waling (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4..

Llandeilo Group :: Llandeilo group () A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.

Wale :: Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Marchman :: Marchman (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

Timberhead :: Timberhead (n.) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head..

Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..

Welsh :: Welsh (n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people..

Wall :: Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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