different between sloop vs shallop

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sloep.

Pronunciation

• enPR: slo?op, IPA^(key): /slu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

sloop (plural sloops)

1. (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

     I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
3. (military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ????? (?ulup)
• ? Catalan: sloop
• ? Czech: šalupa
• ? Danish: slup
• ? Estonian: luup
• ? Faroese: slupp
• ? Finnish: sluuppi
• ? French: sloop
• ? German: Sloop, Slup, Schlup
• ? Icelandic: slúppa
• ? Italian: sloop
• ? Norwegian: slupp
• ? Polish: slup
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???? (slup)
• ? Slovene: šalupa
• ? Swedish: slup
• ? Thai: ???? (sà-lùp)

Translations

Anagrams

• Loops, OOPLs, loops, polos, pools, spool

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo?p/
• Hyphenation: sloop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch slope, from Old Dutch *sl?pa, from Proto-Germanic *slaup?.

Noun

sloop f or n (plural slopen, diminutive sloopje n)

1. pillowcase, pillowslip

Derived terms

• kussensloop

Etymology 2

From slopen.

Noun

sloop m (uncountable)

1. demolition

Verb

sloop

1. singular past indicative of sluipen
2. first-person singular present indicative of slopen
3. imperative of slopen

Anagrams

• loops, los op, oplos, Pools

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ.l?p/

Noun

shallop (plural shallops)

1. (archaic) A kind of light boat; a dinghy. [late 16th C.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.
2. (archaic) A kind of large boat; a sloop.

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