yawl 1
/yawl/ , n.
1. a ship's small boat, rowed by a crew of four or six.
2. a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel having a large mainmast and a smaller jiggermast or mizzenmast stepped abaft the sternpost. Cf. ketch .
[ 1660-70; jol kind of boat ]
yawl 2
/yawl/ , n., v.i., v.t. Brit. Dial.
yowl; howl.
[ 1300-50; ME; cf. YOWL ]