shallop

• shaloup (obsolete)

Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and sloop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃæ.ləp/

shallop (plural shallops)

1. (archaic) A kind of light boat; a dinghy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 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: or the Brethren’s Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen; and sold by J Dodsley, , →OCLC, § 48, page 239:

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

     Quoted from Mr. Dallager the Factor’s Relation, page 46.

   • 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:

     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.

2. (archaic) A kind of large boat; a sloop.