yawl
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oarsA small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
Translations
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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
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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