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couta boat

noun

Etymology

From barracouta, a prized food fish.

Definitions

  1. A type of fishing boat used in Victoria, Australia, until the 1950s, latterly reinvented…

    A type of fishing boat used in Victoria, Australia, until the 1950s, latterly reinvented as a recreational sailboat.

    • 1993, Australian Fisheries Division, Australian Fisheries, Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 10, In those days, fishing was sailing mostly in a 24 four foot couta boat, hooking couta, flathead and rock cod.
    • I went out barracouta fishing at five-thirty in the morning with Grumpy and his mate Donny, in Denny′s battered couta boat.
    • He had a chicory kiln and a couta boat there, both of which he′d built himself, but in my time he scarcely used them.

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