yawl

See also: y'awl

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)

A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
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)

To cry out; to howl.

Anagrams

waly

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

yawl

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