Definition of Yawl. Meaning of Yawl. Synonyms of Yawl

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Definition of Yawl

Yawl
Yawl Yawl, v. i. [OE. [yogh]aulen, [yogh]oulen, gaulen, goulen, Icel. gaula to low, bellow. Cf. Gowl.] To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell. --Tennyson. There howling Scyllas yawling round about. --Fairfax.

Meaning of Yawl from wikipedia

- A yawl is a type of boat. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put...
- YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) is a workflow language based on workflow patterns. It is supported by a software system that includes an execution...
- Islander was the 34-foot yawl with which Harry Pidgeon sailed around the world single-handedly from 1921 to 1925. Pidgeon thus became the second person...
- The term Salcombe Yawl refers to a small sailing dinghy restricted class native to Salcombe in South Devon, and also to the traditional sailing vessel...
- the line had parted, leaving the yawl adrift with its occupants. Begg notes that it would be illogical to attach the yawl to a vessel that the crew thought...
- The Concordia yawl is a class of wooden yawl sailboats; it was designed in 1938 by the naval architect C. Raymond Hunt with input from Llewellyn and Waldo...
- stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and...
- The Humber Yawl Club is a yawl club founded in 1883 and so is one of England's oldest sailing clubs. It was founded on the banks of the Humber Estuary...
- George Holmes, he was a mainstay of the Humber Yawl Club which developed the use of sailing canoes with a yawl rig. Albert Strange was born on 29 June 1855...
- a mainmast taller than its foremast, distinguishing it from a ketch or a yawl. A schooner can have more than two masts, with the foremast always lower...