Definition of sloops Sloops
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Wiktionary 
- sloops (Noun)
Plural of sloop.
Part of speech
🔤- sloops, noun, plural of sloop.
WordNet
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| sloop - a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | ||
| sailing ship, sailing vessel a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts | ||
| knockabout a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sloop (n.)
A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sloop
slōōp, n. a light boat: a one-masted cutter-rigged vessel, differing from a cutter, according to old authorities, in having a fixed bowsprit and somewhat smaller sails in proportion to the hull.—n. Sloop′-of-war, formerly a vessel, of whatever rig, between a corvette and a gun-vessel, constituting the command of a commander, carrying from ten to eighteen guns. [Dut. sloep, prob. O. Fr. chaloupe, shallop.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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sloop
a small vessel furnished with one mast, the main-sail of which is attached to a gaff above, to the mast on its foremost edge, and to a long boom below; by which it is occasionally shifted to either quarter. See VESSEL. -
sloop
OF WAR, a name given to the smallest vessels of war, except cutters. They are either rigged as ships or as snows. See COMMAND, HORSE, and RATE.To SLUE, is to turn any cylindrical or conical piece of timber about its axis, without removing it. This term is generally expressed of the movement by which a mast or boom is turned about, in its cap or boom-iron.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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sloop
A small light fishing vessel, with only a small main-mast and fore-mast for lug-sails. They are commonly good sailers, and are therefore often used as tenders to men-of-war. Also, a large heavy undecked boat, with one mast, fore-and-aft main-sail, and jib-foresail. The gunboats on the French coasts were frequently termed chaloupes, and carried one heavy gun, with a crew of 40 men. Also, a small boat rowed by one or two men. -
sloop
In general parlance is a vessel similar to a cutter; the bowsprit, however, is not running, and the jib is set on a standing stay with hanks. In North America the sloop proper sets only a main-sail and fore-sail, the latter jib-shaped, on a short standing bowsprit, and has no top-mast. The rig is greatly used for yachts there, and is most effective in moderate weather. Sloop in the royal navy is a term depending on the rank of the officer in command. Thus, the donkey frigate Blossom was one cruise rated a ship, when commanded by a captain--the next, a sloop, because only commanded by a commander.
Part of speech
🔤- sloop, noun, singular of sloops.
