| 释义 |
sloop /sloop/ noun- A light boat
- A one-masted cutter-rigged vessel, differing from a cutter in having proportionally smaller sails and sometimes no bowsprit
- (also sloopˈ-of-war) formerly a vessel (of whatever rig) between a corvette and a gun vessel, under a commander, carrying from ten to eighteen guns
ORIGIN: Du sloep; cf shallop |