yawl 的定义
- 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.
yawl 近义词
boat
更多yawl例句
- 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.