Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

couta boat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: couta boat
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From barracouta, a prized food fish.

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

couta boats (plural)

Questions

What does couta boat mean?: A type of fishing boat used in Victoria, Australia, until the 1950s, latterly reinvented as a recreational sailboat.
Where does couta boat come from?: From barracouta, a prized food fish.

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