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shallop

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shal·lop  (shlp)
n.
1. A large heavy boat, usually having two masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lugsails.
2. A small open boat fitted with oars or sails, or both, and used primarily in shallow waters.
[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).]
shallop [ˈʃæləp]
n
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) a light boat used for rowing in shallow water
2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) (formerly) a two-masted gaff-rigged vessel
[from French chaloupe, from Dutch sloep sloop]


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Four shallops came off with very little noise alongside the lugger, which, no doubt, in acknowledgement of the compliment, lowered her own shallop into the sea, and the five boats worked so well that by two o'clock in the morning all the cargo was out of The Young Amelia and on terra firma.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
The doomed in his drifting shallop, Is tranced with the sad sweet tone, He sees not the yawning breakers, He sees but the maid alone:
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
After eleven months wandering in the wilderness, a great part of the time over trackless wastes, where the sight of a savage wigwam was a rarity, we may imagine the delight of the poor weatherbeaten travellers, at beholding the embryo establishment, with its magazines, habitations, and picketed bulwarks, seated on a high point of land, dominating a beautiful little bay, in which was a trim-built shallop riding quietly at anchor.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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