Synonyms for yawl

Grammar : Noun

Spell : yawl

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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