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yawl

yawl \yawl\ (y[add]l), n. [D. jol; akin to LG. & Dan. jolle, Sw. julle. Cf. Jolly-boat.]

  1. (Naut.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. [Written also yaul.]

  2. def>A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with two masts, a mainmast carrying a mainsail and jibs, taller than the mizzenmast and stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop, and with the mizzenmast, or jiggermast far aft, usually placed aft of the water line or aft the rudder post. The mizzenmast of a yawl is smaller, and set further aft, than that of a sloop.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yawl

type of ship's boat, 1660s, apparently from Middle Low German jolle or Dutch jol "a Jutland boat" (according to a 1708 source), of uncertain origin. Also borrowed into French (yole), Italian (jolo), Russian (yal).

Wiktionary
yawl

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

vb. To cry out; to howl.

WordNet
yawl
  1. n. 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

  3. v. emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" [syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar]

Wikipedia
YAWL

YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) is a workflow language based on workflow patterns. The language is supported by a software system that includes an execution engine, a graphical editor and a worklist handler. The system is available as Open source software under the LGPL license.

Production-level uses of the YAWL system include a deployment by first:utility and first:telecom in the UK to automate front-end service processes, and by the Australian film television and radio school to coordinate film shooting processes. The YAWL system has also been used for teaching in more than 20 universities.

Usage examples of "yawl".

Now, the queue had undergone its hebdomadal combing just an hour before Raoul announced his intention to proceed to Naples in the yawl, and it would have been innovating on the only thing that Ithuel treated with reverence to undo the work until another week had completed its round.

As he completes his efforts, Yawl appears and unbanks the forge, the coals still hot enough to smoke sawdust as he begins laying in charcoal.

On gaudy yawls and barquentines, they were arguing, buying and selling and stealing, learning Salt, some weeping, poring over maps of the city, calculating the distance from New Crobuzon or Nova Esperium.

The scene would be rehearsed several times before Sultan, tired of mummery and eager for actualities, slunk yawling into the bush, while Baal Burra, whimpering in the dusk, waddled home to be caged.

Away up to windward the yawl was lowering her trysail with a six-foot rent in it, laying to under her foresheets and mizzen.

The yawl was in the act of whirling round the rocks which form the deep cove on which the Marina Grande of Sorrento lies.

There were at least a dozen drawn up along the beach, where the school kept its small fleet, but four of them were kayaks and six were windsurfing boards, and the only big one nearby was the sailing yawl, which none of them were skilled enough to operate.

While Gerd Jemasze and Elvo put the yawl to rights, Kurgech boiled up a soup in the forward cuddy, and the three men took a supper of pawpaws, soup and hard-bread.

There were two main staterooms in the yawl, and Foyle had prepared both of them in advance.

At all events, the Lord High Admiral couldn't command a yawl with dignity, if he consulted the cockswain every time he wished to go ashore.

The centreboard banged up in its casing, and the yawl grounded on gravel with a lurch.

On an afternoon that threatened rain the Kielmark beached the yawl on the farmost point of Felwaithe.

And smashed squarely down upon it was a small boat--an island yawl or a fishing smack.

Yawling, the Ghûl dropped his barbed spear and clawed hindward, clutching at the damman.

I am sure that when I was surgeon's mate in the old Andromeda, or assistant-surgeon as we say nowadays, and indeed it is far more proper, mate having a certain colloquial, familiar connotation by no means suitable for a member of a learned profession- I am sure I went away in cutting-out expeditions or in sweeps along the coast in the yawl - twice I had command of the yawl!