Noun

(en noun)

(label) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

* 1789 , (Olaudah Equiano) (Gustavus Vassa), (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano) ,

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.

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(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.

Noun

(en-noun)

salep.

(dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep, and later from sassafras bark and other ingredients such as milk and sugar, once popular in London, England.

* 1835 , London Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 7, page 703,

In simple ordinary diarrhœa, a mixture is prescribed, consisting of two ounces of a decoction of mallow and saloop , and two drops of Sydenham's laudanum.

* 2003 , Antony Clayton, London's Coffee Houses: A Stimulating Story , page 31,

As an alternative to coffee — in periods such as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it became expensive — a patron might request saloop .

* 2004 , Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson, Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge , page 261,

He^{[Charles Lamb]} reveals some of their tastes - their likes and dislikes, their humour. And, characteristically, he does so in a digression, that turns out not to be a digression at all, about saloop , a drink made from 'the sweet wood yclept sassafras' and sold at roadside stalls throughout London.

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