SLOOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sloop mean? 

• SLOOP (noun)
  The noun SLOOP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SLOOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sloop" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sloop"):

knockabout (a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit)

raceabout (a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail)

 Context examples 

Did I ever tell you how we laid aboard the French sloop of war Minerve—hey, Tregellis?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never was a better sloop than the Asp in her day.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Anxious not to appear unhappy, she soon recovered herself; and wiping away her tears, was able to notice and admire all the striking parts of his dress; listening with reviving spirits to his cheerful hopes of being on shore some part of every day before they sailed, and even of getting her to Spithead to see the sloop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For an old built sloop, you would not see her equal.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have handled a sloop, a corvette, and a frigate, and I have found a great variety of duties in each of them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Therefore, in hopes to defray some of the charges he must be at, he bought a sloop, loaded it with several sorts of goods, wherewith the Tonquinese usually trade to the neighbouring islands, and putting fourteen men on board, whereof three were of the country, he appointed me master of the sloop, and gave me power to traffic, while he transacted his affairs at Tonquin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And besides, he wanted her so very much to see the Thrush before she went out of harbour—the Thrush was certainly the finest sloop in the service—and there were several improvements in the dockyard, too, which he quite longed to shew her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Four-and-twenty hours later, and I should only have been a gallant Captain Wentworth, in a small paragraph at one corner of the newspapers; and being lost in only a sloop, nobody would have thought about me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The meanest sloop that ever sailed out of France would have overmatched her, and then it would be on me, and not on this Devonport bungler, that a court-martial would be called.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)