sloop
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- n a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
- He spent much time sailing alone, or with a few intimates, or with some of the Kennedy children, often lying on his sloop and staring at the sky.
- Jacques Le Brun, skipper of a French monotype sloop, protested to the judges that an Italian boat had failed to give him sea room at the start of the ninth race.
- The sloop must show a profit two years out of five, but in the years when it loses money, the losses, including interest payments, insurance and upkeep, are deductible from .