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(Australia) A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc.
1992, Jimmy Pike, Yinti, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 140:
Yinti was perishing for a drink of water. He fell down on the sand, and put his mouth to the coolamon.
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 47:
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.
