Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
yawl .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) See
yawl .
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- noun Alternative form of
yawl .
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Examples
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In running along the coast, about twelve o'clock, we had the pleasure to see the red yaul get into a creek.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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The crew of the blue yaul, who had been two or three hours landed, assisted in landing our party.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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I explained that, personally, they were strangers to me; but I offered, if the police would call all the cats in the district together, to come round and see if I could recognise them by their yaul.
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