yawl
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oarsA small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
Meaning
2 sensesA small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
Jolle, Beiboot
ялjal, йолjol, шлю́пкаšljúpka
a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
Translations
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Origin
Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimatelyApparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.
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