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sloop

–noun

a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails. Compare cutter (def. 3), knockabout (def. 1).

[Origin: 1620–30; < D sloep; akin to OE slūpan to glide

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n. A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with a short standing bowsprit or none at all and a single headsail set from the forestay.

[Dutch sloep, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]

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1629, from Du. sloep "a sloop," probably from Fr. chaloupe, from O.Fr. chalupe "small, sloop-rigged vessel," probably related to Eng. shallop. In military use, a small ship of war carrying guns on the upper deck only.

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

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Sloop
"Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space", S. Lucco, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987).

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Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See For, and cf. Former, Foremost.]

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.]

The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. --Shak.

3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.

Fore and aft (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

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