sloop

noun \ ˈslüp \

Definition of sloop

:a fore-and-aft rigged boat with one mast and a single jib

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Recent Examples of sloop from the Web

And all their designs pushed the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule for one-ton sloops.

— bill center, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Late yacht designer Doug Peterson was a true visionary," 3 July 2017
Wood was an avid sailor who died of a heart attack on his sloop, the Nydia, in 1956.

— NOLA.com, "Draining the swamp: A. Baldwin Wood and the pump that built New Orleans," 14 June 2017
Reefs like this, thickly encrusted with native Olympia oysters, haven’t been seen in decades –– since Jack London and his sloop Reindeer joined the Fish Patrol in 1892 to guard against illegal nets in the bay.

— National Geographic, "How the Bay Area Is Restoring Nature's Delicate Balance," 13 June 2017
A deck hand enjoys a fantastic view while replacing hlyard line on a 70-ft sloop.

— greg gilbert, The Seattle Times, "What a view at 85 feet up," 4 June 2017
The prison ships in which captured soldiers were placed were themselves sites of horror: thousands of American captives were left to languish, starve, and often die, in British sloops kept just offshore.

— adam gopnik, The New Yorker, "We Could Have Been Canada," 15 May 2017
The version pictured here is more appropriate to a pirate ship than a simple sloop, given its 45mm titanium-alloy case and its black crocodile strap.

— troy patterson, Bloomberg.com, "Ten Sailing Watches That Look Sharp on Either Land or Water," 12 May 2017
On the voyage, The Ranger sunk a brig loaded with flax seed, a schooner with barley and oats and a merchant sloop from Dublin filled with beer.

— jacob bogage, Washington Post, "The U.S. has invaded Britain just once. It didn’t go well.," 1 May 2017
The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.

— porter fox, New York Times, "From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea," 19 Aug. 2016

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