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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1677-1698
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Sloop, Sloup(e, n. [17th c. Eng. sloop(e (1629).] A sloop, a small trading-vessel or warship. —1677 Renfrewshire Witches 61.
A part of the vehicle which may … cut the air like the … beak of a sloop 1683 Insh Colonial Schemes 198.
To furnish men and sloupes … to sound the riwers 1698 Misc. Bann. C. II 365.
It is therefore humbly offered … to all those who have any skill in navigatting of coasts that there is nothing more proper or usefull on such occasions then a close sloop of 20 or 25 tun with a stout Norroway skift or yoal of four oars manned with a master and pilot and six sea men
