transcription, транскрипция: [ slu:p ]
n. 1 a small one-masted fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with mainsail and jib. 2 (in full sloop of war) Brit. hist. a small warship with guns on the upper deck only. øsloop-rigged rigged like a sloop. [Du. sloep(e), of unkn. orig.]