sloop

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

• enPR: slo͞op, IPA^(key): /sluːp/

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• Rhymes: -uːp

A sloop

sloop (plural sloops)

1. (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 57395299, 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 222716698:

     Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.

2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
3. (military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

• → Bengali: সুলুপ (sulup)
• → 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)

• Loops, OOPLs, loops, polos, pools, spool

• IPA^(key): /sloːp/

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• Hyphenation: sloop
• Rhymes: -oːp

From Middle Dutch slope, from Old Dutch *slōpa, from Proto-Germanic *slaupǭ.

sloop f or n (plural slopen, diminutive sloopje n)

1. pillowcase, pillowslip

• kussensloop

• → Papiamentu: slopi, sloopi

From slopen.

sloop m (uncountable)

1. demolition

sloop

1. singular past indicative of sluipen
2. first-person singular present indicative of slopen
3. imperative of slopen

• loops, los op, oplos, Pools

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sloop m (plural sloops)

1. sloop (boat)

• “sloop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.