slooplike

English

Etymology

sloop +‎ -like

Adjective

slooplike (comparative more slooplike, superlative most slooplike)

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a sloop.
   • 1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic:

     They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine.

   • 1978, Magazine of fantasy and science fiction:

     A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […]

   • 2009, Armstrong Maitland, Day Before Yesterday; Reminiscences of a Varied Life:

     When all this loose stuff had drifted away we found we had but two sails, the mainsail and the slooplike sail on the mizzenmast […]