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Yawl

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Noun

1. yawl

a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)

2. dandy, yawl

a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

Verb

3. howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl

emit long loud cries

Example Sentences:
'wail in self-pity'
'howl with sorrow'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yawl

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noun
1. 
a two-masted sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with a large mainmast and a small mizzenmast stepped aft of the rudderpost
Compare ketch, sloop
2. 
a ship's small boat, usually rowed by four or six oars
verb
(intransitive) British dialect
to howl, weep, or scream harshly; yowl

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Yawl

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noun
1.  Archaic
a ship's boat; jolly boat
2. 
a small, two-masted sailing vessel similar to a ketch but with the mizzenmast located aft of the rudderpost
verb intransitive, noun
British, Dialectal
yowl

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yawl

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n.
1. A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel similar to the ketch but having a smaller jigger- or mizzenmast stepped abaft the rudder. Also called dandy.
2. A ship's small boat, crewed by rowers.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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