yawl

noun

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.Compare ketch.See also schooner(def 1), topsail schooner.

noun, verb (used with or without object) British Dialect.

1. yowl; howl.

noun

1. a two-masted sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with a large mainmast and a small mizzenmast stepped aft of the rudderpostCompare ketch, sloop
2. a ship’s small boat, usually rowed by four or six oars

verb

1. (intr) British dialect to howl, weep, or scream harshly; yowl

n.type of ship’s boat, 1660s, apparently from Middle Low German jolle or Dutch jol “a Juteland boat,” of unknown origin. Also borrowed into French (yole), Italian (jolo), Russian (yal).