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NOUN:
A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with a short standing bowsprit or none at all and a single headsail set from the forestay.
ETYMOLOGY:
Dutch sloep, from Middle Dutch slpen, to glide; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots


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