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Definition: Yawl |
YawlNoun1. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars). 2. A sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost. Verb1. Emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity", "howl with sorrow". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yawl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never a cat-boat. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A yawl is a sailing craft similar to a sloop with an additional mizzen mast behind the main mast. This holds a small triangular sail. The yawl is often confused with a ketch but the ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post whereas the mizzen on a yawl is aft of the rudder post. The yawl has generally fallen out of favor.See also sail-plan.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yawl."
Synonyms: YawlSynonyms: howl (v), roar (v), ululate (v), wail (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yawl |
| English words defined with "yawl": jigger, jiggermast, jolly, jolly boat ♦ mizen, mizenmast, mizzen, mizzenmast ♦ Yaul. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "yawl": Jolly-boat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Yawl" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (yawl), Manx (yawl ), Swedish (yawl). |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Getting the "Yawl" in shape. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Yawl" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Yawl" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yawl": Yawl-rigged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yawl | 20 |
concordia yawl | 4 |
caledonia yawl | 3 |
20 nimble yawl | 3 |
seabird yawl | 3 |
18 canoe yawl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yawl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lundër e vogël me dy vela. (various references) | |
Arabic | اليول مركب شراعي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скимтене (whimper, yelp, yowl), вой (clamor, clamour, cry, howl, rave, wail, whine, yowl), малка рибарска лодка (cog), малка корабна лодка (cockboat), писък (cry, peep, scream, screech, shriek, squall, squeak, squeal, yowl). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小帆船. (various references) | |
Czech | jola. (various references) | |
Dutch | jol. (various references) | |
Finnish | jaala. (various references) | |
French | yawl. (various references) | |
German | Segeljolle, Jolle (dinghy, wherry). (various references) | |
Greek | πλοίαρο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kis csónak (dingey, dinghy, dingy, jolly, jolly boat, jolly-boat), kétevezõs csónak (dingey, dingy), kétárbocos kis vitorlás. (various references) | |
Italian | yawl, scialuppa (boat, jolly boat, launch, pinnace, shallop, sloop). (various references) | |
Manx | yawl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yawlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | uivar (bay, howl, ululate, wow, yowl), lamento (complaint, dole, howl, lament, lamentation, moan, regret, wail), iole, gritaria (caterwaul, hue and cry, noise, outcry, shouting, vociferation), gritar (bawl, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, hoot, howl, scream, shout, sing out, vociferate, waul, whoop, yell), escaler de navio, berreiro (blubber, hubbub, row, uproar, vociferation). (various references) | |
Romanian | iolã (gig, jolly boat). (various references) | |
Russian | ялик (dingey, dinghy, funny, scull, skiff, wherry), ял, иол. (various references) | |
Scottish | geòla (ship's boat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šajka. (various references) | |
Spanish | yola (shell). (various references) | |
Swedish | liten båt (cockboat). (various references) | |
Turkish | yole, filika (boat, boat deck, cutter, Dandy, dinghy, jolly boat, lifeboat, pinnace). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ял, кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, honk, noise, shout, sing out, toot, vociferate, yell), крик (alarm, bawl, call, chirp, clang, cry, hullabaloo, note, oration), котяча музика, горлати, виття (howl, howling, whimper, yowl), вити (bellow, chide, howl, twine, yowl), зойк (clang, cry, exclamation, shriek, squall, wail, whoop, yell). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuyền hai cột bu"m. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yawl": yawled, yawling, yawls. (additional references) | |
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"Yawl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cynwyl, dawl, jawl, yaal, yael, yail, yal, yald, yalg, yall, yaol, yarl, yawa, yawe, Yawk, yawla, yawle, yeaw, yewl, yil, yiw, yuw, yw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: waly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-w-y" | |
-1 letter: awl, law, lay, way, yaw. | |
-2 letters: al, aw, ay, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-w-y" | |
+1 letter: alway, bylaw, flawy, lawny, rawly, wally, wanly, yawls. | |
+2 letters: always, brawly, byelaw, bylaws, crawly, drawly, flyway, lawyer, leeway, logway, oilway, sawfly, wabbly, waddly, waggly, wambly, warily, warmly, wavily, waxily, waylay, weakly, yawled. | |
+3 letters: awfully, bawdily, beltway, byelaws, dayglow, drywall, flyaway, flyways, folkway, gawkily, halfway, hallway, jaywalk, laneway, lawyers, layaway, leeways, lifeway, logways, oilways, pawkily, railway, rollway, sallowy, scrawly, skywalk, slipway, sprawly, swayful, tallowy, tawnily, tollway, trawley, wackily, walkway, wallaby, walleye, waspily, waybill, waylaid, waylays, wayless, wealthy, wearily, weasely, womanly, yawling. | |
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