Sloop
[sluːp] or [slup]
Definition
(noun.) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
Checker: Olga--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Murray
Definition
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.
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Examples
- He relates, that a New-England sloop, trading there in 1752, left their second mate, William Murray, sick on shore, and sailed without him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In my youth, I was passenger in a little sloop descending the river Delaware. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And the concussion was so great that a column of Water, Smoke and fibres of the Sloop were cast from 80 to 100 feet in Air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They have brought cannon balls, broken ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To show the value of his invention he arranged to attack a sloop. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He recovered, and the sloop being gone, he continued with his black friend till some other opportunity should offer of his getting home. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- To prove this experiment, he wrote, the Prefect Maritime and Admiral Villaret ordered a small Sloop of about 40 feet long to be anchored in the Road, on the 23rd of Thermidor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He agreed with the captain of a New-York sloop to take me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Sloop Thrush being made out was spreading general joy through a wide circle of great people. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The explosion took place and the sloop was torn into atoms, in fact, nothing was left but the buye [buoy] and cable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- With a bomb containing about 20 pounds of powder I advanced to within 200 Metres, then taking my direction so as to pass near the Sloop, I struck her with the bomb in my passage. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The sloop putting in at Newport, Rhode Island, I visited my brother John, who had been married and settled there some years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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