yngling

plural ynglings

1. Alternative letter-case form of Yngling.

plural Ynglings

1. A type of two-man keelboat from Norway.

   And what a terrific performance by our girls in the Yngling. […] A strange name - do you Yngle it or sail it.

   2008 (or 2004 August 23?), Ron Pattenden, Land on my right: Solo sail round Britain on a Laser, Lulu.com, page 91

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   The Yngling is highly stable, with a beam-to-waterline ratio of .37 and with 50 percent of the weight in ballast.

   1994, Richard Sherwood, A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, page 108

   … of the Yngling was calculated based on the known mass of the boat, including all equipment, and an estimation of the mass of the three female crew members. A triangular surface mesh was constructed on the Yngling geometry, with computational cells clustered and refined in regions of predominant interest and high surface curvature eg keel/rudder leading and trailing edges.

   2004, The Engineering of Sport: 5: Volume 1, published by the International Sports Engineering Association, page 606

   For example, to insist on the inclusion of female match racing in Ynglings amounts to a foolish fixation on an arcane and visually unexciting aspect of the sport.

   2009, Garry Hoyt, Go for the Green: The New Case for Sail and Solar Power, page 35

1. A surname from Old Norse, especially used of members of the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty, the Ynglings, who were supposedly descended from Frey.