yawl
1 synonym for yawl, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A small boat carried aboard a ship, rowed with several oars.
Etymology
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.
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