shallop

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

shallop (plural shallops)

  1. (archaic) A kind of light boat; a dinghy.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] 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 , 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,  Cadell, successor to A Millar, in the Strand; W. Sandby, in Fleet-street; S. Bladon, in Pater-noster-row; E and C Dilly, in the Poultry; and at all the Brethren’s Chapels.">…], →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.

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