A boomerang or curved throwing stick used by Aboriginal Australians; also spelled koolong or coolang.
From an Australian Aboriginal language, borrowed into English to name this traditional Aboriginal hunting tool. The exact source language is debated among linguists studying Australian Indigenous languages.
Coolung is one of several English words borrowed from Australian Aboriginal languages—like boomerang and billabong—and it represents the vocabulary gap that existed when Europeans encountered completely unfamiliar technologies and needed words to describe them.
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