Similar words: loop, loopy, blooper, looped, looping, loophole, closed loop, feedback loop. Meaning: [sluːp] 
n. a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
n. a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow. 
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31. So it's not the sail area that matters when deciding between a sloop and a ketch, but differences resulting from having that area spread over three rather than two sails.
32. He is coming to enter his new sloop, the Guinevere, in next summer's International Cup Race; and also to have a little canvasback shooting at Trevenna.
33. For example, with the wind at an intensity that a sloop might have to double-reef the main to reduce sail area, a ketch may sail very well under just jib and mizzen.