yawln.1
/jɔːl/, U.S. /jɔl/, /jɑl/ 1. A ship's boat resembling a pinnace, but somewhat smaller, usually with four or six oars.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of
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1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 131 Next morning our Captain and I..went on shore in the yale betimes.
1685 London Gaz. No. 2054/3 The Larks Boat being Commanded by Captain Leightons Brother, the Bonadventures Pinnace by Mr. Harrises accompanied with Mr. Littleton, and the Yaule by Mr. Brisbane.
1687 W. Hedges Diary 10 Jan. (1887) I. 240 Capt. Milborne, perceiving ye Hazard, came off in his Yall to our assistance.
1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvii. 114 We had..a long-boat of five tuns, and a yaul, each with six oars.
1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 397 Hove the ship to, and sent jolly boat and yawl in search of him.
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 4 June 280/2 A small Youghall belonging to some vessel.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiv. 237 The launch, yawl, first and second cutters, were the boats appointed for the expedition.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Yawl..In the British navy it is the fifth boat in point of size; the others being the launch, long-boat, barge, and pinnace.
2. A small sailing-boat of the cutter class, with a jigger.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > yawl
yawl1684
1684 London Gaz. No. 1898/4 Some Deal men have tried to go off to her in one of our Yaules.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2808/4 A Deale built Yawl with 6 Oars.
1713 Order in Council 13 Sept. in London Gaz. No. 5155/1 There came on Board the said Bark Seven Men in a Deal-Yawl.
1798 C. Cruttwell Univ. Gazetteer (1808) III. at Orkney The inhabitants..sail from island to island in small boats, called yoals.
1873 Daily News 22 Aug. 3/5 The Pantomime takes the schooners' prize, the Oimara that for cutters, and the Florinda for yawls.
3. A small kind of fishing-boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
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fly-boat1614
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barca-longa1681
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hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
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jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
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fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 254 The Commodities of Shotland which the Inhabitants do for the most part Trade withal is Ling and Cod, which they take with Hooks and Lines in small Boats, called Yalls, about the bigness of Gravesend Oars.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) iii. 42 All sorts of barques and carvels, from the fishing yawl to the frigate.
1865 Leeds Mercury 22 Feb. Three more of the fishing yawls being missing.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1865 Guardian 17 May 478 A yawl-boat was landed bottom up from the hurricane-deck upon the heads of those below.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. vi. 153 His little yawl-rigged yacht.
1894 H. Caine Manxman vi. i Pete began to think of buying a Dandie, which being smaller than a Nickey, and of yawl rig, he could sail of himself.
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yawln.2
/jɔːl/, U.S. /jɔl/, /jɑl/ An act of ‘yawling’; a shout, yell.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > yell or yelp
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yawping1576
yelping1632
yellowing1652
yawl1728
yelloching1773
yelp1775
gowl1805
youp1808
yawp1824
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iv. ii. 48 To me, the Turkish Yawl at an On-set, the Irish Howl at a Funeral, or the Indian Exclamation at an Eclipse, are all soft Musick to that single Noise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
yawlv.1
/jɔːl/, U.S. /jɔl/, /jɑl/ Now dialect.
1. intransitive.in extended use.1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. i. sig. Bii My gutts they yawle crawle and all my belly rumbleth.
a. To cry out loudly from pain, grief, or distress: also said of the howling of dogs, the ‘wauling’ of cats, the screaming of peacocks.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > howl or whine
theotenc888
yowla1225
gowlc1300
whinec1330
howl1390
yawlc1400
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whewla1560
whinge1562
waw1570
whimper1575
wail1595
ululate1623
wow1806
wowla1825
towl1906
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)]
remeeOE
ropeOE
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to cry out1382
to lift (up) a cry, one's voice1382
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yawlc1400
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bursta1450
yelp?c1450
escry1483
assurd1523
to break forth1526
gaure1530
to call out?1532
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reclaim1611
voice1627
blathe1640
to set up one's pipes1671
bawze1677
sing1813
Great-Scott1902
yip1907
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > wail or howl
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yarmc1000
yowla1225
yollc1275
gowlc1300
woulc1340
yawlc1400
howlc1405
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whewla1560
exululate1623
to sing port-yowla1693
toot1808
blart1896
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1453 He hurteȝ of þe houndeȝ, & þay Ful ȝomerly ȝaule & ȝelle.
c1400 Anturs Arth. ix Hit ȝaulut, hit ȝamurt, lyke a woman.
c1400 Anturs Arth. (Douce) vii There come a lede of þe lawe..Ȝauland and ȝomerand, with many loude ȝelles.
?a1500 Chester Plays (Shaks. Soc.) xiii. 229 See, ffellowe, for cokes soule! This freeke begines to reme and yole.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. A.viv To catche cattell as couytous As hounde, that for hungre woll yall [rhyme fall].
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 178 In hels abisse: Where they may yaule and yarme til that they burst.
1621 J. Taylor Praise of Beggery B iv I (like many other froward boyes) Would yaule, and baule, and make a wawling noyse.
1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching i. 16 The little Peacocks shreame out and yawle amain, pluming themselves.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) The cry of a peacock is an excellent instance of yawling.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Goose ix, in Poems (new ed.) I. 232 Then yelp'd the cur, and yawl'd the cat.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 193 Give a look to that bairn, it yawls sorely.
b. To call aloud, shout, bawl, scream, vociferate.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
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cryc1384
shoutc1385
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hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
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halloo1709
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 288 Cato right eagrely yallyng at Pompeius.
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes iii. D ij b The haplesse Pylot..mainly calls; Calls Ionah, Ionah; and yet lowder yawles.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 114 They all ran skreaming and yawling away.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Yaul, to yell.
2. transitive.
a. (with simple object or object clause.) To shout out, utter with shouting.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)]
remeOE
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hallow?a1400
shout?a1513
roup1513
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yawl1542
toot1582
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vociferate1599
bawl1600
halloo1602
acclaim1659
foghorn1886
honk1906
belt1971
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 172v Thei..whiche yalle and rore, that learnyng..is vtterly nothyng auailable to the gouernaunce..of a commenweale.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. iii. sig. Q6v Such as haue yauld Ergo in the schooles.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript Scourge sig. V2v The nimble Tapster..Still yalling, here, anon sir, by and by.
1679 Pol. Ball. (1860) I. 220 They baul and they yaul aloud thro' the whole town The rights to succession and claims to the Crown.
1859 Habits Good Society (new ed.) v. 217 A man..should never yawl out the namby-pamby ballads beloved of young ladies.
b. (with complement) To bring into a specified state by ‘yawling’.
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a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) ii. i. 17 Ile make 'em yaul one an other deaf, but ile have thee.
Derivatives
ˈyawling n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > wail or howl
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yei?a1289
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blayinga1586
whewling1609
howla1616
vagitusa1651
ululation?1799
gowl1805
waul1856
wow1862
whoo1891
blarting1898
ululance1951
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [adjective] > wail or howl
ululative1490
yawling1568
yowlingc1590
whewling1609
bewailed1624
vagient1629
ululatory1831
ululant1868
blarting1898
waily1906
yarling1911
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau i. i. sig. A.ij The deuill stoppe that same yallyng throte..Somwhiles.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 418 Nigh breath-les all, with their confused yawling.
1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. C2v Young Beagles..Whose yawling throats will never let him sleepe.
1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 454 The hideous Outcries that he made, and his continual Yauling.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 31 A Wife, That makes him weary of his Life With Scolding, yoleing in the House.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
yawlv.2
/jɔːl/, U.S. /jɔl/, /jɑl/ transitive. To convey in a yawl.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > in specific type of craft or by specific propulsion
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boat1508
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barge1652
raft1667
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sculler1682
paddle1784
punt1818
scull1827
wherry1827
yawl1884
steam1891
submarine1918
gondolier1936
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiv. 209 When we got to the village, they yawled us ashore.
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n.21728v.1c1400v.21884- give a rough ride
- give a rouse
- give a run for etc money
- give a run for her money
- give a run for his money
- give a runaround
- give a rush
- give a sail a rap full
- give a scolding
- give a seeing to
- give a semblant
- give a semblant of
- give a serve
- give a ship the stem
- give a shit
- give a shot
- give a shout
- give a show
- give a show of
- give a sop of the same sauce
- give a sop to cerberus
- give a spell
- give a stone and a beating to
- give a stop to
- give a supersedeas to