What does yawl mean?
Yawl means A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars..
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/jɔːl/ · noun
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars..
The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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.
Use yawl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yawl means A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars..
Common synonyms include wail, howl, ululate, roar.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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