Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel similar to the ketch but having a smaller jigger- or mizzenmast stepped abaft the rudder.
- noun A ship's small boat, crewed by rowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cry out; howl; yell.
- noun A ship's small boat, usually rowed by four or six oars; a jolly-boat.
- noun The smallest boat used by fishermen. See cut under
rowlock . - noun A sail-boat or small yacht of the cutter class, with a jigger and short mainboom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.
- noun (Naut.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
- noun 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 asloop .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
- noun nautical A
fore andaft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main andmizzen , the mizzenstepped abaft therudder post. - verb To cry out; to howl;
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb emit long loud cries
- noun a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
- noun a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Kippiputuonaa is seen anxiously watching "the tree-with-wings" (as she naively called the yawl), where her husband, Dr. Traprock, is at work rigging a new yard-arm.
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No human skill could prevent the water from combing in over the gunwales; and when the danger was passed, the yawl was a third filled with water.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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And depending on the number of beers you've had or just how close to Austin you really are it comes out "yawl" anyway leaving the punctuation completely ambiguous.
Meet the Snark Behind the Curtain Jen 2008
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He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern.
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He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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SVGL said ... well, i'd been super wired and going non stop all day, stressed etc. i'm definitely not normally quite like that. but like jason says, it definitely makes me look at that a little more closely. thanks for having a sense of humor, yawl.
No More Sparks On Podcasts SVGL 2009
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He also spent a considerable amount of time living and working aboard his 30-foot yawl, the Roamer, which he loved to sail around San Francisco Bay and throughout the nearby Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta.
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He chose a craft he never seen, a ketch, a compromise between a yawl and a schooner, a two-master with a larger sail forward.
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I explained that it was a barred owl and the she try the “who cooks for you, who cooks for yawl” and had her practice.
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Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette, foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days.
super-logos commented on the word yawl
Not to be confused with "ya'll," a southern expression. As in "Ya'll come over and see us sometime, OK?"
August 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word yawl
Or even confused with sexual. Sales pitch of a Southern prostitute.
August 22, 2008