(AU) 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:
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