noun
Meaning 1
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
yawl
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /jɔːl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /jɔl/
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cot-caught-merger: /jɑl/
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rhymes with -ɔːl
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homophone: y'all
noun
Meaning 2
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To cry out; to howl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dandy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sailing vessel, sailing ship
noun
Meaning 5
a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: small boat
Narrower terms: jolly boat, jolly
verb
Meaning 6
emit long loud cries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- wail in self-pity
- howl with sorrow
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yaup
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall
Narrower terms: squall, waul, wawl
History
Etymology
Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h2ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.
Imitative.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шлю́пка (šljúpka) — sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 划子 (huázi) — sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 舢板 (shānbǎn) — sailing vessel
- Czech: jola — sailing vessel
- Finnish: jooli — sailing vessel
- French: yole — sailing vessel
- Georgian: კარჭაპი (ḳarč̣aṗi) — sailing vessel
- Georgian: ორჩხომელი (orčxomeli) — sailing vessel
- German: Jolle — sailing vessel
- German: Beiboot — sailing vessel
- Hebrew: יָאוּל (ya'úl) — sailing vessel
- Irish: geolta — sailing vessel
- Italian: iolla — sailing vessel
- Japanese: ヨール (yōru) — sailing vessel
- Macedonian: јо́ла (jóla) — sailing vessel
- Macedonian: едри́лица (edrílica) — sailing vessel
- Manx: yawl — sailing vessel
- Plautdietsch: Boot (nds) — sailing vessel
- Polish: jol — sailing vessel
- Portuguese: iole — sailing vessel
- Romanian: iolă — sailing vessel
- Russian: ял (jal) — sailing vessel
- Russian: йол (jol) — sailing vessel
- Russian: шлю́пка (šljúpka) — sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: шојка — sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: шљупка — sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: šojka — sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: šljupka — sailing vessel
- Spanish: yola — sailing vessel