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Definition of shallop in English: shallopnoun ˈʃaləpˈʃæləp historical 1A light sailing boat used mainly for coastal fishing or as a tender. Example sentencesExamples - Mikmaq continued to build their own canoes and shallops with sails, but could not afford steam- or gasoline-powered boats until small, inexpensive outboard motors became available in the 1950s (Wallis and Wallis 1955: 278).
- In 1817, a sealer in a shallop was thrown against these rocks, and, according to a witness, ‘one thigh bone and one arm were the only parts of the body that could be found.’
- In 1767, Nova Scotia merchant Simeon Perkins ‘saw Indians with large quantities of whalebone, in shallops’.
- I will not advance but by the strange calamities that work as on shallops on calmed water, a slow going nowhere kind of motion toward centermost.
- 1.1 A large, heavy boat with one or more masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lug sails, sometimes equipped with guns.
Example sentencesExamples - Having overlooked the deeper pass between Dauphin and Pelican islands, they had proceeded westward to an anchorage in Mississippi Sound and thence by shallop to enter the Mississippi River itself.
Origin Late 16th century: from French chaloupe, from Dutch sloep 'sloop'. Rhymes callop, escallop, escalope, gallop, galop, Salop Definition of shallop in US English: shallopnounˈʃæləpˈSHaləp historical 1A light sailboat used mainly for coastal fishing or as a tender. Example sentencesExamples - I will not advance but by the strange calamities that work as on shallops on calmed water, a slow going nowhere kind of motion toward centermost.
- In 1817, a sealer in a shallop was thrown against these rocks, and, according to a witness, ‘one thigh bone and one arm were the only parts of the body that could be found.’
- Mikmaq continued to build their own canoes and shallops with sails, but could not afford steam- or gasoline-powered boats until small, inexpensive outboard motors became available in the 1950s (Wallis and Wallis 1955: 278).
- In 1767, Nova Scotia merchant Simeon Perkins ‘saw Indians with large quantities of whalebone, in shallops’.
- 1.1 A large, heavy boat with one or more masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lug sails, sometimes equipped with guns.
Example sentencesExamples - Having overlooked the deeper pass between Dauphin and Pelican islands, they had proceeded westward to an anchorage in Mississippi Sound and thence by shallop to enter the Mississippi River itself.
Origin Late 16th century: from French chaloupe, from Dutch sloep ‘sloop’. |