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sloop::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sailing ship, sailing vessel |
| Has types | knockabout, raceabout |
Examples of sloop
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Or wherever the sleek sloop he designed, called Almost Nothing, happens to sail.
From the guardian.co.uk
Soon rain drove the crowds from the park, and the singers retired to the sloop.
From the time.com
Sloop said he could not provide any further details such as the cause of death.
From the inrich.com
A few weeks later they headed for the River Surinam, where they captured a sloop.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The sloop eventually became the USS Princeton, named after Stockton's hometown.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the 1770s the two-masted sloop re-appeared in a new guise as the brig sloop.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Instead, we chose a sunset sail on the Woody Guthrie, a 15-passenger wooden sloop.
From the washingtonpost.com
Unfortunately they only received funding for a 700-ton sloop instead of a frigate.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The first record of him is as quartermaster on Charles Vane's sloop Ranger in 1718.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
- A sloop (from Dutch sloep) is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter. ...
- A single-masted sailboat with only one jib; A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck; a sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette
- Two-runner sled to haul logs or bolts out of the woods. Similar to a scoot except that the sloop is equipped with a tongue (22).
- A style of sailboat characterized by a single mast with one mainsail and one foresail. Also see cutter.
- A single-masted sailboat in which the mast is set forward of midships.
- Naval Steam vessel - the forerunner, in the 1920's, of Frigates and Corvettes.
- A single masted boat. A sloop of war was a minor class vessel, sometimes frigate-built, and carrying one tier of guns.
- Small, fast ship used by pirates in the Caribbean
