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Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : yɔl



Définition of yawl

Origin :
  • type of ship's boat, 1660s, apparently from Middle Low German jolle or Dutch jol "a Juteland boat," of unknown origin. Also borrowed into French (yole), Italian (jolo), Russian (yal).
  • noun boat
Example sentences :
  • The doubloons in the yawl would have been lost but for the sagacity of Mulford.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 » by Various
  • In the yawl the mizzenmast is always stepped aft of the rudder-post.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • Fig. 150 shows the position of the booms when scudding with a schooner and yawl.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • There is the cutter rig, yawl rig, sloop rig, and the ketch rig.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • Then having fastened the "Baleine" to the yawl, he towed her back.
  • Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
  • From that moment all Coqueville interested itself in the yawl.
  • Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
  • A yawl had just put out of the harbor to go to meet the "Baleine."
  • Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
  • At this moment a voice from the yawl that had gone ahead, shouted, "There she is!"
  • Extract from : « An Old Sailor's Yarns » by Nathaniel Ames
  • Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
  • I should prefer something heavier—a yawl, say—for coming in on that beach.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various

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