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yawl

/yawl/US // yɔl //UK // (jɔːl) //

吆喝声,橹,吆喝,帆船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a ship's small boat, rowed by a crew of four or six.
    • : a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel having a large mainmast and a smaller jiggermast or mizzenmast stepped abaft the sternpost.Compare ketch. See also schooner, topsail schooner.

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Examples

  • The little boat was only twenty-five steps from the farmhouse, while the yawl was still distant about a hundred steps.

  • With strong and steady sweeps they drew near the boys and not many minutes afterward quickly dragged both on board the yawl.

  • Not long afterward a yawl was lowered from the boat and two men took their places at the oars.

  • In this way several bushels of potatoes and a lot of green corn were secured and placed by the natives in the yawl.

  • But when he found that all persuasion was useless, he bade his people fill the yawl with vegetables and such meat as was on hand.