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sloop |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sloop \Sloop\, n.[D. sloep, of uncertain origin. Cf {Shallop}.] (Naut.) 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 slop may carry a centerboard. See {Cutter}, and Illustration in Appendix. {Sloop of war}, formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now any war vessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sloop n : a single-masted sailing vessel From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Sloop "Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space", S. Lucco SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987).
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