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Definition of Shallop
1. n. A boat.
Definition of Shallop
1. Noun. (archaic) A type of large boat; a sloop. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A small boat, a dinghy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shallop
1. a small, open boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shallop
Literary usage of Shallop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"He told me that there was a piece of land between shallop wharf & shallop Cove,
eastward of the lane, which contained about five ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... or shallop with eight men, whose names were these, my selfe, Peter Carder
aforesaid, Richard Burnish of London, John Cottle and another, both servants ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... or shallop with eight men, whose names were these, my selfe, Peter Carder
aforesaid, Richard Burnish of London, John Cottle and another, both servants ..."
4. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
""But what heard they daly from y6 mp & company? but y* with speede they should
looke out a place with their shallop, wher they would be at some near ..."
5. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"... or shallop with eight men, whose names were these, my selfe, Peter Carder
aforesaid, Richard Burnish of London, John Cottle and another, both servants ..."
6. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts by Thomas Lechford, James Hammond Trumbull (1885)
"... goe wth a shallop to the said ship & this deponent accordingly went in his
shallop wth the said John Olliver to the same shipp & there demanded and was ..."
7. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... Mr John Olliver of Newberry to goe wth a shallop to the said ship & this
deponent accordingly went in his shallop w"1 the said John Olliver to the same ..."
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