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Definition of Orlops
1. orlop [n] - See also: orlop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orlops
Literary usage of Orlops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"These two orlops, being thus laden, there is left a place about the mainmast ...
The other orlops above these, are laden by the merchants with all sorts of ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"They continue, ' For strengthening the ship we subscribe to the new manner of
building—1st, making three orlops, whereof the lowest, being placed two feet ..."
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