Definitions for sloop

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IPA: /slup/

Sloop is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in sloop (loops).

Definitions for sloop

noun

1. a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails. Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).

Origin of sloop

1620-30; Dutch sloep; akin to Old English slūpan to glide

Examples for sloop

No, continued Clawbonny; the real truth is, it is not the sloop you care about: it is the man.

They would at least have a start, the sloop in front of them, and their enemies behind them.

You engage him to discover a likely sloop whose owner is disposed to sell.

The sloop and her cargo can be made good to her owners—at another time.

We agreed that the sloop and the cargo were to go free if Colonel Sullivan—but you know!

Coneys chartered the Megan Jaye, a 43-ft sloop based in Newport, Rhode Island, and skippered by Hank Halsted.

At last a lighter was mustered, and a sloop from Hingham, which had six port holes.

She became interested in a sloop, beating into Wellmouth harbor, and watched that.

Including the sloop and the Halkett- boat, there was about 1500 lbs.

There is the cutter rig, yawl rig, sloop rig, and the ketch rig.