Sloop

/sluːp/

Synonyms for "sloop" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
launchone-masted craftsailboat

Related words (5)

sailing vesselvesselyacht
Noun(2 words)
single-masted boattender

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

5 entries
boatsailing shipsailing vesselvesselwatercraft

More specific

4 entries
launchpleasure sloopracing slooptender boat

Collocations

5 entries
fishing slooppleasure sloopracing sloopship's sloopsloop rig

Inflections

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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?

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

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