yawl

See also: y'awl

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔːl/
• Homophone: y'all
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Apparently from Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol.

Noun

yawl (plural yawls)

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

Translations

sailing vessel

• Bulgarian: шлю́пка (bg) f (šljúpka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 划子 (zh) (huázi), 舢板 (zh) (shānbǎn)

• Finnish: jooli (fi)
• French: yole (fr) m
• German: Jolle (de) f, Beiboot (de) n
• Irish: geolta m
• Japanese: ヨール (yōru)

• Macedonian: јо́ла f (jóla), едри́лица f (edrílica)
• Manx: yawl m
• Portuguese: iole f
• Russian: ял (ru) m (jal), йол (ru) m (jol), шлю́пка (ru) f (šljúpka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шојка f, шљупка f

  Roman: šojka (sh) f, šljupka (sh) f

• Spanish: yola (es) f

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

1. To cry out; to howl.

Anagrams

• waly

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

1. yawl