Explore Yawl through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like yell or call. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Yawl in a sentence
Yawl meaning
- A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
- A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
Synonyms of Yawl
Using Yawl
- The main meaning on this page is: A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
- Useful related words include: small boat, yell, call, cry.
Context around Yawl
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yawl
- In this selection, "yawl" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cutter, conover and yawch stand out and add context to how "yawl" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a yawl is that and equivalent cutter yawl or ketch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yawl" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yawl
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sin'sHero: Did yawl yawch the pun? (7 words)
Harvey Conover and Revonoc * "Search Continuing For Conover Yawl", The New York Times, January 8, 1958. (16 words)
By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch. (22 words)
The difference between a ketch and a yawl is that in a ketch, the mizzen mast is forward of the rudderpost (the axis of rotation for the rudder), while a yawl has its mizzen mast behind the rudderpost. (38 words)
By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch. (22 words)
Harvey Conover and Revonoc * "Search Continuing For Conover Yawl", The New York Times, January 8, 1958. (16 words)
Sin'sHero: Did yawl yawch the pun? (7 words)
Example sentences (4)
The difference between a ketch and a yawl is that in a ketch, the mizzen mast is forward of the rudderpost (the axis of rotation for the rudder), while a yawl has its mizzen mast behind the rudderpost.
Sin'sHero: Did yawl yawch the pun?
By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch.
Harvey Conover and Revonoc * "Search Continuing For Conover Yawl", The New York Times, January 8, 1958.