Vocabulary : Sloop to Slopping
Sloop : A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.Slop : Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. ;; Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural. ;; Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. ;; To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill. ;; To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled. ;; To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over. ;; Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. ;; A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. ;; Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Slope : The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope. ;; An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. ;; Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. ;; Sloping. ;; In a sloping manner. ;; To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment. ;; To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes. ;; To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Sloped : of Slope
Slopeness : State of being slope.
