coolamon
A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc.
Noun
- A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc.
- Yinti was perishing for a drink of water. He fell down on the sand, and put his mouth to the coolamon. - 1992, Jimmy Pike, Yinti, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008,...
- Wiradjuri people in New South Wales also built large dams, and then carried fish and yabbies in coolamons over large distances to stock the new waterholes. - 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 47:
Origin
From Gamilaraay guliman (and similar forms in neighbouring languages).