sloop Meaning & Definition

  • En [ sluːp]
  • Us [ sluːp]

Meaning of sloop In English

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  • An employee of the defendant unmoored the sloop, which was then driven upon the shore by the storm.

  • The northern fleet consisted of different types of vessels comprising sloops, small schooners and ketches.

  • The ketches and the sloops often managed to make two voyages in a season.

  • Sampson was soon joined by three more fishing sloops and two steam vessels, all seeking shelter from the worsening conditions.

  • I should like now to refer to submarines and sloops.

  • The information asked for is as follows: 10 destroyers, 20 sweepers, 6 sloops, 16 drifters, and 28 trawlers.

  • In 1914, we started with 260 sloops and destroyers and other small vessels, and in 1918 we had actually 55s at sea.

  • If you discuss the question of convoys solely as relating to sloops, you will only touch the fringe of it.

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