Skiff vs Sloop - What's the difference?
skiff | sloop |
A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
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, title= Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
(weather) A light wind/rain/snow, etc.
(slang) Used when referring to anyone (typically rednecks and fishermen) who has a degree of intelligence, but believes they are more than they actually are.
(label) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
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, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop ?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.}}
(label) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Sloop is a hyponym of skiff.
As nouns the difference between skiff and sloop
is that skiff is a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern while sloop is a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.As a verb skiff
is to navigate in a skiff.skiff
English
(wikipedia skiff)Etymology 1
From (etyl) esquif, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff' s rail, close to the stern.}}
Etymology 2
.sloop
English
(wikipedia sloop)Noun
(en noun)- I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
