couta boat

English

Etymology

From barracouta, a prized food fish.

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.
   • 1993, Australian Fisheries Division, Australian Fisheries, Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 10,

     In those days, fishing was sailing mostly in a 24 four^[sic] foot couta boat, hooking couta, flathead and rock cod.

   • 1995, Geoffrey Dutton, Out in the Open‎, page 466:

     I went out barracouta fishing at five-thirty in the morning with Grumpy and his mate Donny, in Denny′s battered couta boat.

   • 2003, Jan Bassett, The Facing Island: A Personal History‎, page 5:

     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.