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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "yawl" in a sentence

    yawl example sentences

    yawl


    1. The winds increased during the day until by early afternoon the sleek yawl was leaning far onto its side, sails full, sun shining, white waves kicking up at the bow as the boat sailed past pine-covered, rocky-shored islands with few houses on them


    2. The Hinckley yawl, “Swift,” was anchored in front of the boathouse at WoodenBoat


    3. what the Hinckley yawl used at every hole in its hull, was a device called a seacock


    4. Back in the middle of Penobscot Bay, the Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl “Swift” slowly drifted toward the sea bottom, 135 feet from the surface


    5. The crew of the “Wrangel” made short work of refloating the Hinckley yawl with inflatable salvage bags


    6. She sent out her yawl, and we went aboard, and she was from Cincinnati; and when they found we only wanted to go four or five mile they was booming mad, and gave us a cussing, and said they wouldn't land us


    7. “Pray, Sir, could they reach the Cassandra by Means of a Yawl?” Susannah askt


    8. Blessed be her Cries! They prove at least that she is still alive! The Babe bobs upon the Water before the fat, floating Moon Face of her lunatick Nurse, who seems near-dead from the Fall; and yet Belinda lives! Prue is her Raft, her Yawl, her Pinnace, her Pilot, her Wherry! Horatio swims to her with what manly and heroick Resolution I cannot e’en say, snatches the Babe, and whilst she screams in his Arms, he swims alongside our Boat


    9. He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern


    10. Massingbyrd, pointing to a yawl that even as she spoke had rounded the island

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    Synonyms for "yawl"

    dandy yawl howl roar ululate wail yaup

    "yawl" definitions

    a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)


    a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost


    emit long loud cries