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Sloop.


Nautical.) a. A foreand-aft rigged vessel with one mast, like a cutter, but having a jib-stay and standing bowsprit, which the cutter has not.

b. Formerly a ship of war of a size between a corvette and a brig.

War-vessels of 2,000 tons and upward, as large as line-of-battle ships in the days of Howe and Nelson, carrying 12 to 22 heavy guns, are now termed sloops.

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