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sloop /sluːp /noun1A one-masted sailing boat with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft.I like storms even though one tried to kill me a few years ago, late at night on a 36-foot sloop with its full mainsail still stupidly up, twenty miles from the nearest shore of Lake Superior....- A procession of big cruising sloops was entering the marina, and I suddenly realized that their skippers intended to dock under sail.
- For most coastal cruising conditions the sloop would be the preferred rig on this size boat but, perhaps for aesthetic reasons, most were rigged with the double headsail arrangement.
1.1 (also sloop of war) historical A small square-rigged sailing warship with two or three masts.Stark paused for a moment to look out on the British sloops and transport ships in the harbor, then ran across the ridgeline of Breed's Hill toward his troops, two hundred New Hampshire militiamen....- Again, that's great stuff for kids - it's pirates, it's pistols, it's cutlasses, it's galleons and sloops and swords.
- The colony of Victoria, also concerned with its security, acquired the steam sloop Victoria in 1855.
1.2 historical A small anti-submarine warship used for convoy escort in the Second World War.Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a sloop design for convoy escort work....- During WWII, while in command of the sloop HMAS Yarra, he and his ship's company put up a valiant fight to protect an Allied convoy from Japanese attack in the Java Sea.
- Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of sloops defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Dutch sloep(e), of unknown origin. Rhymesbloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop |