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plural coolamons
(Australia) A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc. quotations examples
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, p. 140
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