shallop/ˈʃæ.ləp/EtymologyBorrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and sloop.nounA kind of light boat.; A shallow-draft riverboat.A kind of light boat.; A dinghy.“Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.”A kind of large boat; a sloop.