英语词汇catboat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

catboat. Catboat remains a double etymological mystery. No one knows why the name cat was given in the late 17th century to “a large vessel formerly used in the English coal trade and ca- pable of carrying some 600 tons.” Neither is it known why this name was later transferred to the small single-masted pleasure sailboat known as a catboat today. Perhaps the two boats were named independently, the reason for the former’s name any- body’s guess, and the cat sailboat so named because it is small and moves quickly and quietly, like a cat.

词汇	catboat
词源	catboat. Catboat remains a double etymological mystery. No one knows why the name cat was given in the late 17th century to “a large vessel formerly used in the English coal trade and ca- pable of carrying some 600 tons.” Neither is it known why this name was later transferred to the small single-masted pleasure sailboat known as a catboat today. Perhaps the two boats were named independently, the reason for the former’s name any- body’s guess, and the cat sailboat so named because it is small and moves quickly and quietly, like a cat.
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