couta boat

== English == === Etymology === From barracouta, a prized food fish. === Noun === couta boat (plural couta boats) (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.