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Definition of Bloops
1. bloop [v] - See also: bloop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloops
Literary usage of Bloops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Territory of Florida, Or, Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural by John Lee Williams (1837)
"Southwest from this last key about three miles, is the Alligator shoal, where
one of our bloops-of-war was wrecked. In this shoal there is only four feet ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1849)
"For Dartmouth had gone so far as to station' several bloops at the mouth of the
harbour of Portsmouth with orders to suffer no vessel to pass out unexamined ..."
3. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1821)
"550 5th 300, or 280 6th 175, 145, 125 Of bloops there are so many varieties, that
we cannot propose to reduce the eight schemes of complement now existing, ..."
4. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland by Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1905)
"... after beating all of her class in home waters, was taken out to America and
pitted against the centre-board bloops there, winning six out of seven ..."
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