yawl

Meanings

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.

Origin

• 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 ("tube-shaped organ in the neck"), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.
• Imitative.