shallop

English

Etymology

From French chaloupe.

Noun

shallop (plural shallops)

  1. (archaic) A type of large boat; a sloop.
  2. (archaic) A small boat, a dinghy.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
      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.

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