yawl

• After a great deal of chaffering in regard to the amount of salvage, and some little altercation with part of the boat's crew as to which of them should stay with the vessel, J. Layton, J. Woolsey, and George Darling, boatmen, were finally chosen to assist in pumping and piloting her into Yarmouth harbor: the remainder of the crew of the yawl were then sent away. —  The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea
• We crossed in a ferry-boat or a yawl, always having for our oarsmen old sailors with bleached beards and sunburnt faces whom we had known from earliest childhood When we reached the other bank, the rocky one, I always had a curious optical illusion: it seemed to me that the town from which we had come, and whose gray ramparts we still could see, suddenly drew very far away from us, for in my young head distances exaggerated themselves strangely. —  The Story of a Child
• No human skill could prevent the water from combing in over the gunwales; and when the danger was passed, the yawl was a third filled with water. —  Jack Tier
• By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher. —  The Voyage of the Beagle
• Two more shots rang out -- one from the yawl, another from the boat. —  Ravensdene Court

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