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slooplike en · ADJ

Etymology

From sloop + -like.

Meanings

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a sloop.
   • They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine. 1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic:
   • A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […] 1978, Magazine of fantasy and science fiction:
   • When all this loose stuff had drifted away we found we had but two sails, the mainsail and the slooplike sail on the mizzenmast […] 2009, Armstrong Maitland, Day Before Yesterday; Reminiscences of a Varied Life:

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