| 词汇 | keelboat |
| 词源 | keelboat. “These boats were long and narrow, sharp at the bow and stern, and of light draft. They were provided with run- ning boards, extending from bow to stern, on each side of the boat,” a writer noted in the American Pioneer (1843). Keelboats, also called keels at the time, were first recorded in the language in 1785 and the word derives from the kiel boot (meaning the same thing) of early Dutch settlers. Keelboatmen were among the roughest of men on the frontier. |
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