shallop

• However, the water in the harbor was too low and the wind too strong for the shallop, or shallow boat, to reach the Mayflower. —  Ottaway Online Editors
• Last year I had a brother as sailed out of this in a shallop, on the same day as yon vessel," pointing to the Balaklava; "he went out in company with your captain; he was going to his wedding, he thought, poor fellow, for he was to bring a young wife home with him from Halifax, but he got caught in a storm off Canseau, and we never heard of the shallop again. —  Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
• Into the harbor, where once a single shallop was the only visible sign of man's dominion over the water, now sail great vessels from Yucatan and the Philippines, bringing sisal and manila for the largest cordage company in the whole country--a company with an employees' list of two thousand names, and an annual output of $10,000,000. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
• He manned three vessels--"a great shallop, a fine gundeloe and a great canoe"--with Spanish musketeers and Indians with poisoned arrows. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• In a light shallop, two Young men, whose dress, etcaetera, proclaims, Etcaetera,--so would write G.P.R. —  The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art

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