Meaning & use
sloop
A sailboat with a single mast and typically one mainsail and one foresail, rigged fore-and-aft.
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The small sloop glided easily across the harbor in the light breeze.
They spent the summer restoring an old wooden sloop found in a coastal boatyard.
A note on using this word
A sloop is distinguished from a ketch or schooner mainly by having a single mast rather than two.
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