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1. Sloop
   Parallel Programming in a Virtual Object Space, S. Lucco, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):26-34 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987).
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2. Sloop
   Traditionally, a sloop is a small vessel furnished with one mast and a fixed bowsprit. It is fore and aft rigged, and usually carries a main-sail, fore-sail (jib-shaped), a jib, and a gaff-sail. The sloop resembles the cutter, but the latter's bow-sprit is not fixed. The term 'sloop' was formerly ap...
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3. Sloop
   Naval Steam vessel - the forerunner, in the 1920's, of Frigates and Corvettes.
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4. sloop
   [n] - a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat`s length aft of the bow
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5. Sloop
   A single masted craft with a mainsail and one sail forward of the mast.
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6. Sloop
   Sloop noun [ Dutch sloep , of uncertain origin. Confer Shallop .] (Nautical) 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 bowspr...
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7. sloop
   noun a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat`s length aft of the bow
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8. Sloop
   • (n.) 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 center...
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9. sloop
   single-masted sailing vessel with fore-and-aft rigging, including mainsail, jib, and sometimes one or more headsails. A sloop of war was a small ...
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10. sloop
    sloop, fore-and-aft-rigged, single-masted sailing vessel with a single headsail jib. A sloop differs from a cutter in that it has a jibstay—a support leading from the bow to the masthead on which the jib is set. A sloop of war was a small warship, variously rigged as a barque, brig, brigantine...
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11. sloop
    A fore and aft rigged sailing craft with one mast.
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12. Sloop
    :For the military definition of sloop see: Sloop-of-war. :For the open learning project see: SLOOP Project. A `sloop` (from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe) is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter. A slo...
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