The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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Yawl
//jɔːl//
Synonyms for "yawl" (64 found)
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29 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- шлю́пка noun (sailing vessel)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 划子 noun (sailing vessel)
- 舢板 noun (sailing vessel)
Czech
1 entries- jola noun (sailing vessel)
Finnish
1 entries- jooli noun (sailing vessel)
French
1 entries- yole noun (sailing vessel)
Georgian
2 entries- კარჭაპი noun (sailing vessel)
- ორჩხომელი noun (sailing vessel)
German
2 entries- Beiboot noun (sailing vessel)
- Jolle noun (sailing vessel)
Hebrew
1 entries- יָאוּל noun (sailing vessel)
Irish
1 entries- geolta noun (sailing vessel)
Italian
1 entries- iolla noun (sailing vessel)
Japanese
1 entries- ヨール noun (sailing vessel)
Macedonian
2 entries- едри́лица noun (sailing vessel)
- јо́ла noun (sailing vessel)
Manx
1 entries- yawl noun (sailing vessel)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Boot (nds) noun (sailing vessel)
Polish
1 entries- jol noun (sailing vessel)
Portuguese
1 entries- iole noun (sailing vessel)
Romanian
1 entries- iolă noun (sailing vessel)
Russian
3 entries- йол noun (sailing vessel)
- шлю́пка noun (sailing vessel)
- ял noun (sailing vessel)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- šljupka noun (sailing vessel)
- šojka noun (sailing vessel)
- шојка noun (sailing vessel)
- шљупка noun (sailing vessel)
Spanish
1 entries- yola noun (sailing vessel)
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