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Encyclopedia Britannica



SLOOP

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 244 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SLOOP , a type of small sailing-vessels which have one
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
drawn
  by a sloop having a fixed and a cutter a running bowsprit. In the sailing and early steam days of
naval
  warfare, a " sloop " was a small corvette, ship-rigged, with all the guns mounted on the upper deck. Like so many nautical terms the word was borrowed from the Dutch, viz. sloep, boat. This is generally taken to be an
adaptation
  of the Fr. chaloupe, Span. and Port. chalupa, cf. Ital. scialuppa, Eng. "shallop," a
light
  boat. These probably represent some native word borrowed by Spanish or Portuguese sailors in the
East
  or American Indies. Other etymologists distinguish the Dutch and
French
  words and refer sloep to the common Teutonic root, meaning to glide, to creep, seen in " slip," Ger. schleifen, schleefen, &c.


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