yawl
IPA: jˈɔɫ
noun
- 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.
verb
- To cry out; to howl.
Advertisement
Examples of "yawl" in Sentences
- For the sailing craft, see yawl.
- The two men abandoned their yawl.
- The ketch rig is often confused with a yawl.
- A cat yawl designed for shallow water sailing.
- Joshua Slocum's Spray was a yawl with a bumpkin.
- Yawls are defined as having the mizzen mast abaft ie.
- Yawls are defined as having the mizzen mast abaft i.e.
- That is the functional difference between the ketch and yawl.
- The last reported sighting of the yawl was off Cedros Island.
- Don't much like it but it could act as a compromise if yawl agree.