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Meaning of couta boat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Australia

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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