slooplike

comparative more slooplike · superlative most slooplike

1. rareResembling or characteristic of a sloop.

   They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine.

   1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic

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   A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […]

   1978, Magazine of fantasy and science fiction

   When all this loose stuff had drifted away we found we had but two sails, the mainsail and the slooplike sail on the mizzenmast […]

   2009, Armstrong Maitland, Day Before Yesterday; Reminiscences of a Varied Life