Noun
“a fore-and-aft rigged boat with one mast and a single jib”- Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
The sentence the word is used in is “The man who assumes that there s an essential difference between sloop and the airplane lacks historic perspective.”
For the word ‘Sloop’ I now understand that it’s actually a name for an object, a type of sail boat to be exact, that has the front and back part of the boat with ropes that help support and move the masts. Along that within the sentence it was use in is to show the comparison between the boat and the airplane not being so different.