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sloop

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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; < Dutch sloep; akin to Old English slūpan to glide

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sloop (sluːp)

—n
	Compare cutter a single-masted sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with the mast stepped about one third of the overall length aft of the bow

[C17: from Dutch sloep; related to French chaloupe launch, Old English slūpan to glide]

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sloop

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 definition

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

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sloop

single-masted sailing vessel with fore-and-aft rigging, including mainsail, jib, and sometimes one or more headsails. A sloop of war was a small sloop-rigged warship, mounting about 20 guns. In modern usage, the sloop is practically synonymous with the cutter

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"The next summer I saw a sloop from Chatham dragging for anchors and chains just off this shore.... It is a singular employment, at which men are regularly hired and paid for their industry, to hunt to-day in pleasant weather for anchors which have been lost,—the sunken faith and hope of mariners, to which they trusted in vain; now, perchance,... if the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. The bottom of the sea is strewn with anchors, some deeper and some shallower, and alternately covered and uncovered by the sand, perchance with a small length of iron cable still attached,—to which where is the other end? So many unconcluded tales to be continued another time. So, if we had diving-bells adapted to the spiritual deeps, we should see anchors with their cables attached, as thick as eels in vinegar, all wriggling vainly toward their holding-ground. But that is not treasure for us which another man has lost; rather it is for us to seek what no other man has found or can find,—not be Chatham men, dragging for anchors."

-Henry David Thoreau

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