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Word | Sloop |
a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow / a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat''s length aft of the bow / 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. / a one-masted sailboat with a fore-and-aft mainsail and a jib., | |
Usage | ⇒ The pirates voyaged in a sloop ⇒ She slooped her slushie in the park. ⇒ 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. |
Synonyms | boat, corvette, frigate, ketch, sailing vessel, bang, barge, bark, brig, buss, carrier, cat, clipper, cruiser, cutter, dandy, dash, destroyer, flattop, foist, |
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