sloop : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sloop	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for sloop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sloop n a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sloop \Sloop\, n.[D. sloep, of uncertain origin. Cf. {Shallop}.] (Naut.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See {Cutter}, and Illustration in Appendix. {Sloop of war}, formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now, any war vessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Sloop "Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space", S. Lucco, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987).