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yawl

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4 lettersPronunciation /jɔːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted alwyStarts with YEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. emit long loud cries

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

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