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n. A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with a short standing bowsprit or none at all and a single headsail set from the forestay.

n. A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

n. A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.

n. a sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette

n. A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard. See cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.

n. In modern usage, a sailing vessel having one mast, commonly with a Bermuda rig, with either a center-board or a keel. In the United States, a sloop may have one or two headsails, while in Western Europe and Great Britain a sloop has only one headsail.

n. A small fore-and-aft rigged vessel with one mast, generally carrying a jib, fore-staysail, mainsail, and gafftopsail. Some sloops formerly had a square topsail.

n. In lumbering, a strong crutch of hard wood, with a strong bar across the limbs, used for drawing timber out of a swamp or inaccessible place.

To draw (logs of timber) on a sloop.

n. a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow

"The Eidolon, moored at pier number one, the one closest to the sea, carried one square-rigged mast and whatever they called a sloop's mast."

sailing vessel    sailing ship   

to dry-sloop    loose-tongued sloop   

cutter   

raceabout    knockabout   

shi   

Guadeloupe    Hoop    Loop    Shoop    coop    coupe    croup    doupe    droop    drupe   

brig    schooner    frigate    yacht    pinnace    man-of-war    steamer    lugger    galley    corvette