英语词汇colt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

colt. When Samuel Colt (1814–62) ran away to sea from his home in Hartford, Connecticut at 16, he spent his lonely nights on deck whittling a wooden model of the Colt revolver that was to make him famous. Young Colt had several metal models made of his gun upon arriving home and patented his invention. He built his armory into the largest in the world, his use of inter- changeable parts and the production line making him one of the richest men in America. As for the Colt, the first pistol that could be effectively employed by a man on horseback, it played a more important part in the conquest of the West than any other weap- on, the famed “six-shooter” becoming so popular that its name became a generic term for revolver. Colt for a young horse comes from the Old English colt meaning the same.

词汇	colt
词源	colt. When Samuel Colt (1814–62) ran away to sea from his home in Hartford, Connecticut at 16, he spent his lonely nights on deck whittling a wooden model of the Colt revolver that was to make him famous. Young Colt had several metal models made of his gun upon arriving home and patented his invention. He built his armory into the largest in the world, his use of inter- changeable parts and the production line making him one of the richest men in America. As for the Colt, the first pistol that could be effectively employed by a man on horseback, it played a more important part in the conquest of the West than any other weap- on, the famed “six-shooter” becoming so popular that its name became a generic term for revolver. Colt for a young horse comes from the Old English colt meaning the same.
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