单词 | catboat |
释义 | cat·boat (kătbōt′) n. A broad-beamed sailboat carrying a single fore-and-aft sail on a mast near the bow and often fitted with a centerboard. [Probably from Early Modern English cat, from CAT (although the reason why such vessels were associated with cats is unknown; compare Dutch kat, cat (the animal), a kind of vessel with a wide fore and aft, and Medieval Latin gatus, gattus, and Old French chat, cat, a kind of war machine or portable shed for protecting sapping operations, a kind of war vessel equipped with such a shed, and Middle French chat, cat, a kind of commercial vessel).] |
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