Sloop
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“A small fore-and-aft rigged vessel with one mast, generally carrying a jib, fore-staysail, mainsail, and gaff-topsail. Some sloops formerly had a square topsail. It is generally understood that a sloop differs from a cutter by having a fixed instead of a running bowsprit, but the names are used somewhat indiscriminately.” —Whitney, 1889
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ship, ships, sailboat, sail, boat, boats, sails, sloop, sailboats, cutter, mast, sloop of war, masts, cutters, sloopsSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5702
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