Definitions for yawl

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Spelling: [yawl]

IPA: /yɔl/

Yawl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in yawl (alwy).

Definitions for yawl

noun

1. a ship's small boat, rowed by a crew of four or six.
2. a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel having a large mainmast and a smaller jiggermast or mizzenmast stepped abaft the sternpost. See also schooner (def 1), topsail schooner.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. yowl; howl.

Origin of yawl

First recorded in 1660-70, yawl is from the Dutch word jol kind of boat

Examples for yawl

From that moment all Coqueville interested itself in the yawl.

In the yawl the mizzenmast is always stepped aft of the rudder-post.

Fig. 150 shows the position of the booms when scudding with a schooner and yawl.

A yawl had just put out of the harbor to go to meet the "Baleine."

The doubloons in the yawl would have been lost but for the sagacity of Mulford.

At this moment a voice from the yawl that had gone ahead, shouted, "There she is!"

Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.

There is the cutter rig, yawl rig, sloop rig, and the ketch rig.

Then having fastened the "Baleine" to the yawl, he towed her back.

I should prefer something heavier—a yawl, say—for coming in on that beach.