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noun

yawl n.

(Naut.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. (Written also yaul)

A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with two masts, a mainmast carrying a mainsail and jibs, taller than the mizzenmast and stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop, and with the mizzenmast, or jiggermast far aft, usually placed aft of the water line or aft the rudder post. The mizzenmast of a yawl is smaller, and set further aft, than that of a sloop.

verb

Yawl v. i. To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell. "There howling Scyllas yawling round about."

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Etymology of 'Yawl'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Yawl" Quotes from Famous Books

... recollection. It was not for me to assist him, of course. But now in his delirium it all comes out: the names of the boats, every incident of the explosion, and likewise the details of his astonishing escape—that is, up to where, just as a yawl-boat was approaching him (he was clinging to the starboard wheel of the burning wreck at the time), a falling timber struck him on the head. But I will write out his wonderful escape in full to-morrow or ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... her tricolour out there within sight of my pavilion windows. Never saw such monstrous impudence in my life! It would take a man of less mettle than me to stand it. Out I went in my little cock-boat—you know my sixty-ton yawl, Charlie?—with two four-pounders on each side, and a six-pounder in ...

— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... in a yawl hanging at the davits. The boat was crushed like an egg-shell; but the sailor fell overboard and ...

— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

... habit of thought, was tinged with gray at the temples; yet skin and complexion were as those of a boy. Quick in movement, agile, alert, thrilling with vitality and virility, his pleasures were, as they had always been, the pleasures of the great out-of-doors. A yachtsman, his big yawl, the "Manana," was known in every club port from Gravesend to Bar Harbor. He motored. He rode. He played tennis, and golf, and squash, and racquets. He was an expert swimmer, a skilful fencer, a clever boxer. And, more wonderful than the combination of these things was the fact ...

— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne

... reined up, and gave the perverse little donkey a cut with his whip, which elicited another hoarse roar from the old sailor as the animal half doubled himself up, and then ambled away like a yawl in a short sea, until he came up to the people ahead, when he stood stock-still and brayed maliciously, "have you another cigar, colonel? Thankee! Fine scenery this about here—never visited Jamaica before? Ye have been off the island, eh? It's a nate little ...

— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

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