sloop

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sloop

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

Pronunciation

enPR: slo͞op, IPA^(key): /sluːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

A sloop

sloop (plural sloops)

(nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
  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.
- 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:
  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?
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.
(military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
(military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Bengali: সুলুপ (śulup)
→ Catalan: sloop
→ Czech: šalupa
→ Danish: slup
→ Estonian: luup
→ Faroese: slupp
→ Finnish: sluuppi
→ French: sloop
→ German: Sloop, Slup, Schlup
→ Icelandic: slúppa
→ Italian: sloop
→ Norwegian: slupp
→ Polish: slup
→ Serbo-Croatian: слуп (slup)
→ Slovene: šalupa
→ Swedish: slup
→ Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp)

Translations

single-masted sailboat

Belarusian: шлюп m (šljup)
Bulgarian: платноходка (bg) f (platnohodka)
Catalan: sloop m, balandra f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 單桅帆船／单桅帆船 (dānwéi fánchuán)
Czech: šalupa f
Danish: slup
Dutch: sloep (nl) m or f
Estonian: luup (et)
Faroese: slupp f
Finnish: sluuppi (fi)
French: sloop (fr) m
Georgian: კანჯო (ka) (ḳanǯo)
German: Slup (de) f, Schaluppe (de) f
Icelandic: slúppa
Ido: slupo (io)
Italian: sloop (it) m
Japanese: スループ (surūpu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slupp m

Nynorsk: slupp m
Polish: slup (pl) m
Portuguese: chalupa (pt) f
Russian: шлюп (ru) m (šljup)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: слуп m

Roman: slup (sh) m
Slovak: šalupa f
Slovene: slup m
Spanish: balandra (es) f, chalupa (es) f
Swedish: slup (sv)
Thai: สลุบ (sà-lùp)
Turkish: slup
Ukrainian: шлюп m (šljup)
Volapük: jalup (vo)

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