yawl

English

Etymology

Apparently from Middle Low German jolle or Dutch jol.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jɔːl/
• Homophone: y'all

Noun

yawl (plural yawls)

1. (nautical) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. (nautical) A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

Translations

sailing vessel

• Finnish: jooli (fi)
• Irish: geolta (ga) m
• Japanese: ヨール (ja) (yōru)
• Macedonian: јола (mk) (јóla) f, едрилица (mk) (edrílica) f
• Russian: ял (ru) (jal) m, йол (ru) (jol) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шојка (sh) f, шљупка (sh) f

  Roman: šojka (sh) f, šljupka (sh) f

• Spanish: yola (es) f

Verb

yawl

1. To cry out; to howl;