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yaul

yaul is the alternative form of yawl.

Meaning of yawl

Noun

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

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Forms of yaul

pluralyauls

Questions about yaul

What is yaul the alternative form of?
Yaul is the alternative form of yawl.

Words near yaul in the dictionary

  1. Yauhen
  2. Yauheni
  3. Yauhenii
  4. Yauheniy
  5. Yauhens
  6. yaul
  7. yauld
  8. yaulder
  9. yauldest
  10. yauls
  11. Yaumatei

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yaul (page history and authors); yawl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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