Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rigged like a sloop—that is, having one mast with jib and mainsail.

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Examples

  • By saving money, by earning more, and by each of us foregoing a bicycle on his birthday, we had collected the purchase price of the Mist, a beamy twenty-eight-footer, sloop-rigged, with baby topsail and centerboard.

    To Repel Boarders 2010

  • She brought from her barbaric homeland a sloop-rigged yacht, which she captained without shame, dressed as a common sailor.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • A sloop-rigged cruising sailboat should have a minimum sail inventory of a mainsail with two sets of reef points (see Reefing Systems, p. 173), a regular number 1 genoa (150 to 170 percent), and a working jib (80 to 100 percent).

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • You may move on to a larger sloop-rigged sailboat.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • A sloop-rigged cruising sailboat should have a minimum sail inventory of a mainsail with two sets of reef points (see Reefing Systems, p. 173), a regular number 1 genoa (150 to 170 percent), and a working jib (80 to 100 percent).

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • You may move on to a larger sloop-rigged sailboat.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • As nearly as I could gauge in the light, the boat was about thirty-five feet long, sloop-rigged, the sail now neatly furled on the boom, the jibsail not even out.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

  • About an hour after she went down, the survivors were cheered by hearing the sound of vessels beating the waves at a distance; they hailed a sloop-rigged vessel, with two boats astern of her.

    Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park

  • By saving money, by earning more, and by each of us foregoing a bicycle on his birthday, we had collected the purchaseprice of the Mist, a beamy twenty-eight - footer, sloop-rigged, with baby topsail and centerboard.

    To Repel Boarders 1922

  • The cutter was a small, sloop-rigged affair, but large it seemed alongside Tehei's canoe.

    Chapter 12 1913

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