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Sloop of war is London Cockney rhyming slang for a whore.
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A kind of dispatch boat or advice boat, most predominant in the French navy. Equivalent to the modern sloop.
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A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.
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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.
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A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
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The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
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A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
v. t.
To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
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A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
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A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
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Slumber.
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Alt. of Slue
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A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
v. t.
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
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Sluggish; slow.
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See Sloough, 2.
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A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
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A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
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