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sloop

/sloop/US // slup //UK // (sluːp) //

单船,帆船,独桅帆船,单单船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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, knockabout.

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Examples

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

  • A few minutes later, a boat was seen to push off from the sloop and make for the lightship.

  • Was there any other Jones in the town who owned a small sloop and dealt largely in cured fish?

  • Thus dismissed, Jim descended the side and was quickly on board the sloop Nora to which he belonged.

  • Meanwhile Billy Towler, left in sole possession of the sloop, felt himself in a most unenviable state of mind.

  • The lookout on the Liberty saw two boats, crowded with men, gliding swiftly toward the sloop.