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Origin and history of yawl

yawl(n.)

type of ship's boat, 1660s, apparently from Middle Low German jolle or Dutch jol "a Jutland boat" (according to a 1708 source), a word of uncertain origin. Also borrowed into French (yole), Italian (jolo), Russian (yal). Compare jolly-boat.

yawl(v.)

late 14c., "cry out loudly," from pain, grief, or distress; imitative. By 1540s as "call out, shout, bawl." Related: Yawled; yawling. Compare yowl.

also from late 14c.

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jolly-boat(n.)

"small boat hoisted at the stern of a vessel," 1727; the jolly is of unknown origin, probably from Danish jolle (17c.) or Dutch jol (1680s), both related to yawl; or it may be from Middle English jolywat (late 15c.) "a ship's small boat," of unknown origin.

yowl(v.)

"give a long, distressful or mournful cry," c. 1200, youlen, yuhelen, probably of imitative origin (compare jubilant). Related: Yowled; yowler; yowling. The noun is recorded from mid-15c.

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    Old English giellan (West Saxon), gellan (Mercian) "to yell, sound, shout," class III strong verb (past tense geal, past participle gollen), from Proto-Germanic *gel- (source also of Old Norse gjalla "to resound," Middle Dutch ghellen, Dutch gillen, Old High German gellan, German
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