Sloop

[sluːp] or [slup]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.

編輯:奥尔加--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

編輯:默里

解釋/意思:

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.

整理:莉莲