yawl

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

US /jɔl/ UK /jɔːl/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like yore /l/ vs /r/

Freq #129261

Meanings

1

noun
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
2

verb
To cry out; to howl.

1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.
3

noun
a sailing vessel with two masts
4

noun
a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)

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Synonyms

3 noun · a sailing vessel with two... dandy

Etymology

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

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General Vocabulary

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# yawl

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /jɔl/
**IPA (UK):** /jɔːl/
**Frequency rank:** 129261

## Meanings
1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
2. To cry out; to howl.
3. a sailing vessel with two masts
4. a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)

## Examples
- The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
- 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.

## Etymology
Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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