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yawls

yawls is the plural 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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Questions about yawls

What is yawls the plural of?
Yawls is the plural of yawl.

Words near yawls in the dictionary

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

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