What is "sloops"

Usage examples of "sloops".

He stood at the wicket gate for a few moments, watching the two sloops continue blasting the ends of the streets with caseshot, then led the rush along the road beside the port that led to the brothel.

The flagship, three 74s, a frigate and various sloops represented the King's ships, but there were dozens of local craft tacking, running and reaching as they went about their business of fishing, carrying vegetables, or taking passengers from one of the little ports to another round the perimeter of the Bay.

The frigate will be the Amalie, Captain Herbert Roper, and the sloops the Betty, master and commander Jason King, and the Rose, master and commander William Payne.

The captains of the two sloops were known as "masters and commanders", the rank that went with command of a sloop, and although they were in fact the captains of their ships, they were known as commanders.

It might be better if they were brought to the sloops, rather than led all the way round to the frigates.

And putting the women on board the sloops is a good idea: I didn't like the idea of them having to run all that way back to the frigates some of them might be in a very distressed state.

So he had been reduced to sending a couple of frigates and a couple of sloops, to show the British Minister (and the King of the Two Sicilies) that at least he was doing something.

I think you'll find deeper water a few yards further out - where the sloops went.

And the popping of distant musketry showed that the Marines on board the sloops were adding their share.

And Major Golightly was going to be facing a difficult decision in a few moments: should he halt and wait for the guns of the Betty and Rose to clear the front of the barracks of Saracens, or should he continue advancing, forcing the sloops to stop firing.

At least the women are safe in the sloops and the Italian men are in the Amalie and the Calypso.

Without our mizzen topgallant, those accursed sloops will catch us by noon tomorrow, evening if we manage the sails well.

The soldiers on those sloops or the Ra’zac or Galbatorix himself could hunt us at his leisure.

I’d rather face the sloops an‘ die in the open sea than go to that doomed place.

We’d be hard-pressed to accomplish that with the sloops near on our tail.