Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sloop
IPA transcription: [sl'up]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sloop
    Meaning: a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
Usage examples
  • I sailed from Baltimore for St. Michael's in the sloop Amanda, Captain Edward Dodson.
  • "But let us go," continued De Winter; "let us be off; the boat must be waiting for us and there is our sloop at anchor--do you see it there?
  • You see how it sweeps round the town--forty-nine miles to the Missouri; sloop navigation all the way pretty much drains this whole country; when it's improved steamboats will run right up here.
  • Just look at Percival B. Sloop, A most unpleasant sort of Goop; He pokes his fingers in his nose And wipes his hands upon his clothes; He does a lot of things that you, I know, would never, never do!