Definitions for yawls

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Spelling: [yawl]

IPA: /yɔl/

Yawls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in yawls (alswy).

Definitions for yawls

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 yawls

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

Examples for yawls

From that moment all Coqueville interested itself in the yawl.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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