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shaloup

shaloup is the obsolete form 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.

Forms of shaloup

pluralshaloups

Questions about shaloup

What is shaloup the obsolete form of?
Shaloup is the obsolete form of shallop.

Words near shaloup in the dictionary

  1. shalosh seudot
  2. shalosh seudoth
  3. shalot
  4. shalots
  5. Shalott
  6. shaloup
  7. shaloups
  8. shalpha
  9. shalphas
  10. shalst
  11. shalt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaloup (page history and authors); shallop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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