shallop

plural shallops · alternative obsolete shaloup

1. A kind of light boat.
   1. archaicA shallow-draft riverboat.First known use late 16th C.
   2. archaicA dinghy.First known use late 16th C.

      Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop’s ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!

      1767, David Crantz, “Of the Sciences of the Greenlanders”, in [John Gambold], transl., The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants: […], London: […] [F]or the Brethren’s Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, § 48, page 239

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      Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.

      1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

      The first event in the Indian wars of New England, as related to its settlement by our forefathers, occurred on the 8th of December, 1620, while a company of the Pilgrims were coasting along the shores towards Plymouth Bay, in their shallop.

      1906, George Madison Bodge, “Introductory Chapter”, in Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620–1677, 3rd edition, page 1

2. archaicA kind of large boat; a sloop.