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What is a sloop?

What is a sloop? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
  2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
  3. A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
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Matt followed Katherine's lead and moved out onto the tiny foredeck of the sloop.
A small sloop approaches the shore ferrying a group of passengers from Gloucester.
You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop.
When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side.
The 31 was offered as a sloop or with a double headsail arrangement commonly called a cutter.
The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay.

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