英语词汇flatboats的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

flatboats; store boats; keelboats; Kentucky arks. Adam Gimbel, founder of the Gimbels department store chain, among other pioneer American merchants, often fitted out flatboats with shelves and counters, stocked them with goods, and float- ed downriver to sell his wares on the banks of towns too small to have permanent stores. Such early American store boats stocked everything from groceries to dry goods, liquor, and gun powder. Many flew calico flags, and many at the end of each spring trip were taken apart and sold for lumber. Some- times the merchants used keelboats instead of flatboats. In- tense rivalry between crews of these two types of riverboats led to bitter fights that made the boats unwelcome in some towns, but both were of great importance in developing the American West.

词汇	flatboats
词源	flatboats; store boats; keelboats; Kentucky arks. Adam Gimbel, founder of the Gimbels department store chain, among other pioneer American merchants, often fitted out flatboats with shelves and counters, stocked them with goods, and float- ed downriver to sell his wares on the banks of towns too small to have permanent stores. Such early American store boats stocked everything from groceries to dry goods, liquor, and gun powder. Many flew calico flags, and many at the end of each spring trip were taken apart and sold for lumber. Some- times the merchants used keelboats instead of flatboats. In- tense rivalry between crews of these two types of riverboats led to bitter fights that made the boats unwelcome in some towns, but both were of great importance in developing the American West.
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