sloop of war

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   a sailing or steam warship having cannons on only one deck

   Broaderwarship

Questions about sloop of war

What does sloop of war mean?

sloop of war means "a sailing or steam warship having cannons on only one deck".

Is sloop of war a common word?

sloop of war is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.