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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLOOP , a type of small sailing-vessels which have one See also:

MAST (2) (Anglo-Saxon maest, food, common to some Teutonic languages, and ultimately connected with " meat")
MAST (I) (O. Eng. maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. malus; from the medieval latinized form mast us comes Fr. malt)

mast rigged " fore and aft," carrying a mainsail, gaff-topsail, jib and fore staysail. There is little in rig to distinguish a sloop from a " cutter," and the terms are used indiscriminately; sometimes a distinction is See also:

DRAWN

drawn by a sloop having a fixed and a cutter a See also:

RUNNING

running bowsprit. In the sailing and See also:

early See also:

steam days of See also:

NAVAL

naval warfare, a " sloop " was a small corvette, See also:

SHIP

ship-rigged, with all the guns mounted on the upper See also:

DECK

deck. Like so many nautical terms the word was borrowed from the Dutch, viz. sloep, See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat. This is generally taken to be an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the Fr. chaloupe, Span. and See also:

PORT

Port. chalupa, cf. Ital. scialuppa, Eng. "shallop," a See also:

LIGHT

light boat. These probably represent some native word borrowed by See also:

SPANISH

Spanish or Portuguese sailors in the See also:

East or See also:

AMERICAN

American Indies. Other etymologists distinguish the Dutch and See also:

French words and refer sloep to the See also:

COMMON

common See also:

Teutonic See also:

root, meaning to glide, to creep, seen in " slip," Ger. schleifen, schleefen, &c.

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