sloop
sloop
Definition
sloop (slo̵̅o̅p)
noun
a fore-and-aft-rigged, single-masted sailing vessel with a mainsail and a jib
Etymology: Du sloep < LowG sluup < slupen (akin to OE slupan), to glide: for IE base see slip
sloop
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- war: But, contrary to the course I thought he would pursue, Hillyar brought with him the Cherub sloop of war.
Converse of object
- build: The eight sloops recently built in his Majesty's Yards have been ordered to their stations to prevent the running of wool from Ireland.
- capture: He was sent back to England with the captured sloop Indian, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 26th December 1812.
- launch: The third was a Bridgewater class sloop launched at Devonport in 1930.
- see: Soon after we saw a sloop, gave her chase and came up with her: had been trading among the French.
- purchase: The Society purchased the sloop ' AMY HOWSON ' in 1976 with Financial assistance from the Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts.
- send: Hearing of the presence of the " Revenge " , the governor of Jamaica, sent an armed sloop to intervene.
Adjective modifier
- British: Ranger later captured the British sloop of war Drake off the coast of Ireland on 24 April and pillaged the British coast.
- Indian: A few days later he sailed for home in the INDIAN sloop.
- wooden: Fourth Zebra was a wooden screw sloop, launched 13th November 1860.
- Spanish: On 17th March 1744 a Spanish sloop was taken by Capt. FRANKLAND and carried into Charlestown, S. Carolina.
- French: In action 7th October, 1756, with a French sloop of greater force, and her captain, James Holbourne, was killed.
- new: Charles Smith was appointed Captain of Spy, one of the new sloops building at Chatham.
Modifies a noun
- rig: With her fin keel, wheel steering and sloop rig she is an easy boat to sail.
Noun used with modifier
- brig: A 10-gun brig sloop of the Cherokee class she was two years old and the first command of her captain, Cdr.
- screw: Fourth Zebra was a wooden screw sloop, launched 13th November 1860.
- Bermudan: It has a hard chine hull powered with a conventional bermudan sloop rig.
- masthead: The mast has masthead sloop rigging, with two lowers beneath the spreaders.
- escort: More often than not, however, the vessels were used as patrol or convoy escort sloops.
- gun: Foreground left is HMS Snake, an eighteen gun sloop from Nelson's era.
