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shallops

shallops is the plural of shallop.

Meaning of shallop

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
  3. (archaic) A kind of large boat; a sloop.

Questions about shallops

What is shallops the plural of?
Shallops is the plural of shallop.

Words near shallops in the dictionary

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

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