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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

chaloupe

, probably from D.

sloep

. Cf.

(Naut.)

A boat.

[She] thrust the

shallop

from the floating strand.

Spenser.

☞ The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.

Noun.

[This word is changed into sloop; but the two words have now different significations.]

1. A sort of large boat with two masts, and usually rigged like a schooner.

2. A small light vessel with a main-mast and fore-mast, with lug-sails.

shallop ‎(plural shallops)

(archaic) A type of large boat; a sloop.
(archaic) A small boat, a dinghy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
  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.