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yawling

yawling is the present participle and gerund of yawl.

Meaning of yawl

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

  1. To cry out; to howl.
    • 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.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

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Questions about yawling

What is yawling the present participle and gerund of?
Yawling is the present participle and gerund of yawl.

Words near yawling in the dictionary

  1. yawl
  2. yawled
  3. yawler
  4. yawlers
  5. yawless
  6. yawling
  7. yawls
  8. yawlsman
  9. yawlsmen
  10. Yawm al-Din
  11. yawmeter

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