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Yawl

//jɔːl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  2. 2
    a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost wordnet
  3. 3
    A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

    "The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest."

  4. 4
    a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cry out; to howl.
  2. 2
    emit long loud cries wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

Etymology 2

Imitative.

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