| 释义 |
coolamon Austral.|ˈkuːləmən|
Also coolaman, cooliman, k-.
[Native name.]
A vessel made of wood or bark, used for carrying water, etc. Also attrib.
1847Leichhardt Overland Exped. 269 Three Koolimans (vessels of stringy bark) were full of honey water. 1863Beveridge Gatherings 37 The beautiful Lubrina Fetched a Cooliman of water. 1881A. C. Grant Bush Life in Queensland (1882) xxxiii. 337 A few broken gourds, a broken spear or two, and a cracked coolaman, were to be seen here and there. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xvii, The fire-barks [were] carried in the coolimans to prevent the tell-tale fall of ashes. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 92 Coonardoo set her boy in the coolamon she had scooped with sharp stones from the elbow of a river gum. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 130 ‘How much this one?’ I asked, pointing to a small coolamon dish. |