Meaning of Shallop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of light boat; a dinghy.
   archaic
2. A kind of large boat; a sloop.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.”

“Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop’s ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!”

“The first event in the Indian wars of New England, as related to its settlement by our forefathers, occurred on the 8th of December, 1620, while a company of the Pilgrims were coasting along the shores towards Plymouth Bay, in their shallop.”

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