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shallop

/ˈʃæ.ləp/

shallop noun: a shallow-draft riverboat.

Noun

shallop (plural shallops)

  1. (archaic) A shallow-draft riverboat.
  2. (archaic) A dinghy.
    • Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop’s ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!1767, David Crantz, “Of the Sciences of the Greenlanders”, in [John Gambold], transl., The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants: […], London: […] [F]or...
  3. (archaic) A kind of large boat; a sloop.

Forms of shallop

pluralshallops
alternative form (obsolete)shaloup

Origin of shallop

Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and sloop.

Words that rhyme with shallop

Questions about shallop

What does shallop mean?
Shallop means a shallow-draft riverboat.
What part of speech is shallop?
Shallop is a noun.
How do you pronounce shallop?
Shallop is pronounced /ˈʃæ.ləp/.
What is the plural of shallop?
The plural of shallop is shallops.

Words near shallop in the dictionary

  1. shallnae
  2. shallon
  3. shallons
  4. shalloon
  5. shalloons
  6. shallop
  7. shallops
  8. shallot
  9. shallots
  10. shallow
  11. Shallow Bay

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