yawl

plural yawls

1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

   The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193

present singular third person yawls · participle present yawling · participle past yawled · past yawled

1. To cry out; to howl.

   Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados