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sloop

/sluːp/

sloop noun: a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

sloop: a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail
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Noun

sloop (plural sloops)

  1. A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
    • I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    • And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8
  2. A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
  3. A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Proper noun capitalized: Sloop

Sloop (plural Sloops)

  1. A surname.

sloop meaning in Kannada, Sinhala and Thai

sloop in Kannada

ಒಕ್ಕೂವೆಯ ಹಡಗು

sloop in Sinhala

sloop
සුලුප්පුව suluppuwa

sloop in Thai

single-masted sailboat
สลุบ sà-lùp

Forms of sloop

Noun
pluralsloops
Proper noun
pluralSloops

Plural of sloop: sloops

Origin of sloop

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

Words formed from sloop

Words that rhyme with sloop

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Questions about sloop

What does sloop mean?
Sloop means a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
What is sloop in Kannada?
Sloop in Kannada is ಒಕ್ಕೂವೆಯ ಹಡಗು. See Sloop meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is sloop?
Sloop can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sloop?
Sloop is pronounced /sluːp/.
What is the plural of sloop?
The plural of sloop is sloops.

Words near sloop in the dictionary

  1. sloom
  2. sloomed
  3. slooming
  4. slooms
  5. sloomy
  6. sloop
  7. sloop-of-war
  8. slooplike
  9. sloopman
  10. sloopmen
  11. sloops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sloop (page history and authors); Sloop (page history and authors); sloop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); සුලුප්පුව (Sinhala) (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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