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sloop

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sloop/sluːp/

▶noun

1 a one-masted sailing boat with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft.

2 (also sloop of war) historical a small square-rigged sailing warship with two or three masts.

3 a small anti-submarine warship used for convoy escort in the Second World War.

– origin C17: from Du. sloep(e), of unknown origin.

'sloop' also found in these Oxford entries:

shallop - skipjack

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