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sloop [? prob. < sloop boat; cf. stoneboat] 
1 n. Lumbering a single sleigh (def. 1) used for hauling logs.
See also: sleigh ((n.)) (def. 1) stoneboat
- 1955 At the present rate, it's expected that the haul will be finished by March 1. Some 250 persons are engaged in the operation plus 55 teams for the horse-haul, and several tractors, sloops, trucks and jammers.
- 1966 The six, square-timbered barns that surround the farmhouse . . . [contain] a museum of pioneer equipment--cutters, wagons, broad axes, double sleighs, and a single sleigh known as a scoop [sic].
2 n. B.C. a hayrack mounted on runners.
See also: sleigh rack
- 1962 He'd send us out to load our sloops while he'd open the stack, spreading the emergency top he'd built at the onset of the storm.
- 1962 . . . nothing counted then but . . . pitching out the raked-up bunches onto the sloops, hauling sloop load after sloop load alongside the derrick poles.
- 1955 At the present rate, it's expected that the haul will be finished by March 1. Some 250 persons are engaged in the operation plus 55 teams for the horse-haul, and several tractors, sloops, trucks and jammers.