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slooplike

adj

Etymology

From sloop + -like.

  1. borrowed from sloep
  2. suffixed as slooplike — “sloop + like”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […]
    • When all this loose stuff had drifted away we found we had but two sails, the mainsail and the slooplike sail on the mizzenmast […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA