the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A boat.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A light boat or vessel, with or without a mast or masts; a sloop.
Word Usage
"The sky was blossoming into stars above the afterglow; out to the east the moon was rising, and the sea beneath it was a thing of radiance and silver and glamour; and a little harbour boat that went sailing across it was transmuted into an elfin shallop from the coast of fairyland."