yawl

Meanings

1. 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. 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. 3
   noun

   a sailing vessel with two masts

4. 4
   noun

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

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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