English Explanatory Dictionary

yawl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
verb
  1. To cry out; to howl.

Pronunciation

/jɔːl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yawl.wav /jɔl/ /jɑl/

Word forms

yawl yawls yawling yawled

Etymology

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.

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