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couta boat

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

Noun

couta boat (plural couta boats)

  1. (Australia) A type of fishing boat used in Victoria, Australia, until the 1950s, latterly reinvented as a recreational sailboat.
    • In those days, fishing was sailing mostly in a 24 four foot couta boat, hooking couta, flathead and rock cod.1993, Australian Fisheries Division, Australian Fisheries, Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 10
    • I went out barracouta fishing at five-thirty in the morning with Grumpy and his mate Donny, in Denny′s battered couta boat.1995, Geoffrey Dutton, Out in the Open, page 466

Forms of couta boat

pluralcouta boats

Origin of couta boat

From barracouta, a prized food fish.

Questions about couta boat

What does couta boat mean?
Couta boat means a type of fishing boat used in Victoria, Australia, until the 1950s, latterly reinvented as a recreational sailboat.
What part of speech is couta boat?
Couta boat is a noun.
What is the plural of couta boat?
The plural of couta boat is couta boats.

Words near couta boat in the dictionary

  1. coussinets
  2. Cousteron
  3. Cousy
  4. Cousys
  5. couta
  6. couta boat
  7. couta boats
  8. Couta Rocks
  9. Coutances
  10. coutareagenin
  11. coutaric acid

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