Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large heavy boat, usually having two masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lugsails.
- n. A small open boat fitted with oars or sails, or both, and used primarily in shallow waters.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A light boat or vessel, with or without a mast or masts; a sloop.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A boat.
Etymologies
- From French chaloupe. (Wiktionary)
- French chaloupe, from Dutch sloep, sloop; see sloop, or perhaps from obsolete French chaloppe, nutshell (from Old French eschalope, from escale, eschale, shell, husk; see scale1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The sky was blossoming into stars above the afterglow; out to the east the moon was rising, and the sea beneath it was a thing of radiance and silver and glamour; and a little harbour boat that went sailing across it was transmuted into an elfin shallop from the coast of fairyland.”
“The shallop was a serviceable vessel, and ran bravely before the wind on the calm sea.”
“The shallop was a long time getting clear of the point, having to row, but at last got up her sails and out of the harbor.”
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
“Aspinet himself; while the first red man allowed to come on board the shallop was the owner of the corn "borrowed" by the Pilgrims, who now repaid its value twofold by an order for goods to be delivered at”
“The commander of the shallop was the savage named Ouagimou, who was on terms of friendship with Bessabez, chief of the river Norumbegue, of whom he asked the body of Panounias, [243] who had been killed.”
“For these infractions the mutineers put Hudson, his seventeen-year old son, and seven others loyal to the captain on a small boat (known as a shallop) and set them adrift.”
“Champlain wrote: On June 20, a shallop arrived from Sainte-Croix which gave us news of the arrival of forty canoes, which were the Bésérévis [his name for the Nipissing], and with them a French interpreter whom the Sieur de Caën had sent the previous year [1632] to encourage the Indians to come for trade, and he asked the sieur de Champlain to come quickly to Sainte-Croix, desiring to see him.”
“Other Iroquois tried to board the shallop from their war canoes.”
“They were larger than a shallop and smaller than an ocean-going navire.”
“In the summer another six or eight had returned from the farm on Cap Tourmente, and eleven arrived in the shallop that so displeased Champlain.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shallop’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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Nautical Words
lubber, mizzenmast, circumnavigation, clipper, cordage, galleon, gangplank, gangway, flying bridge, following sea, schooner, amidships and 106 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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S
saffron, sapphire, sashay, satin, seashell, seductive, sepia, serene, shadow, shimmer, silhouette, skyline and 96 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Definitions
Esoteric words for me
pleroma, syzygy, antanaclasis, Therapeutae, Essenes, arcane, germane, apposite, conurbation, sinecure, antiphonal, coenobite and 159 more...
Tweets
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bilby "'What's a shallop?' I asked, my curiosity getting the better of my fear of ignorance.
He was not angry at the question but only laughed as he set about trying to free the embedded axe from the chopping block.
'I don't really know,' he said. 'It's just the word they always used, 'shallop'. It's sort of a small open boat. You can row it or use sails. Sort of like a dory. I think it's originally a French word.'"
- 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod. Feb 19, 2008