▪ I. yawl, n.1
(jɔːl)
Forms: 7 yaule, yale, 7–8 yall, yaul, 8 yawle, (youghall), 8–9 yole, yoal, yoll, 7– yawl.
[app. ad. MLG. jolle (LG. jolle, jölle, jelle), or Du. jol (17th c.) explained by Sewel, 1708, as ‘a Jutland boat’, whence dim. jolleken (1660, Hexham), cf. Sw. julle, Da. jolle; of unknown origin. F. yole, † iol(e, It. jolo, Russ. yal are from Germanic.]
1. A ship's boat resembling a pinnace, but somewhat smaller, usually with four or six oars.
| 1670 Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 131 Next morning our Captain and I..went on shore in the yale betimes. 1685 Lond. 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 (Hakl. Soc.) I. 240 Capt. Milborne, perceiving y⊇ Hazard, came off in his Yall to our assistance. 1742 Woodroofe in Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xvii. 76 We had..a long-boat of five tuns, and a yaul, each with six oars. 1775 Dalrymple in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 397 Hove the ship to, and sent jolly boat and yawl in search of him. 1776 Pennsylvania Even. Post 4 June 280/2 A small Youghall belonging to some vessel. 1834 Marryat P. Simple xxxiii, The launch, yawl, first and second cutters, were the boats appointed for the expedition. 1875 Knight 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.
| 1684 Lond. Gaz. No. 1898/4 Some Deal men have tried to go off to her in one of our Yaules. 1692 Ibid. No. 2808/4 A Deale built Yawl with 6 Oars. 1713 Order in Council 13 Sept. in Lond. Gaz. No. 5155/1 There came on Board the said Bark Seven Men in a Deal-Yawl. 1798 Cruttwell Gazetteer (1808) III. s.v. Orkney, The inhabitants..sail from island to island in small boats, called yoals. 1873 Daily News 22 Aug., The Pantomime takes the schooners' prize, the Oimara that for cutters, and the Florinda for yawls. |
3. A small kind of fishing-boat.
| 1670 J. Smith Eng. Improv. 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 Sch. & Schm. iii. (1858) 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. |
4. attrib. and Comb.
| 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 Asph. xvi, His little yawl-rigged yacht. 1894 Hall 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. |
▪ II. yawl, n.2
(jɔːl)
[f. yawl v.1]
An act of ‘yawling’; a shout, yell.
| 1728 Fielding Love in several Masques iv. ii, 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. |
▪ III. yawl, v.1 Now dial.
(jɔːl)
Forms: 4–5 ȝaule, 4, 7–8 yall, 6 yalle, 6–7 yaule, yawle, 7–8 yaul, 8–9 yole, 7– yawl.
[Parallel to yowl, with alternation of vowel designed to express a variety of the sound echoed. Cf. LG. jaueln (of cats).]
1. intr. 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.
| 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1453 He hurtez of þe houndez, & þay Ful ȝomerly ȝaule & ȝelle. c 1395 Plowman's Tale 386 To catche catell as covytous As hound, that for hunger woll yall [rime fall]. c 1400 Anturs Arth. ix, Hit ȝaulut, hit ȝamurt, lyke a woman. Ibid. vii. (Douce MS.) There come a lede of þe lawe..Ȝauland and ȝomerand, with many loude ȝelles. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 178 In hels abisse: Where they may yaule and yarme til that they burst. 1621 J. Taylor (Water P.) Begger B iv, I (like many other froward boyes) Would yaule, and baule, and make a wawling noyse. 1681 Hickeringill Sin Man-Catching i. 16 The little Peacocks shreame out and yawle amain, pluming themselves. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., The cry of a peacock is an excellent instance of yawling. 1833 Tennyson Goose ix, Then yelp'd the cur, and yawl'd the cat. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 193 Give a look to that bairn, it yawls sorely. |
b. To call aloud, shout, bawl, scream, vociferate.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 288 Cato right eagrely yallyng at Pompeius. 1620 Quarles Feast for Wormes iii. D ij b, The haplesse Pylot..mainly calls; Calls Ionah, Ionah; and yet lowder yawles. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 405 They all ran skreaming and yawling away. 1808 Jamieson, To Yaul, to yell. |
| transf. 1575 Gammer Gurton ii. i, My gutts they yawle crawle and all my belly rumbleth. |
2. trans. a. (with simple obj. or obj. clause.) To shout out, utter with shouting.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 172 b, Thei..whiche yalle and rore, that learnyng..is vtterly nothyng auailable to the gouernaunce..of a commenweale. 1613 Wither Abuses Stript ii. iii. Q vj b, Such as haue yauld Ergo in the schooles. Ibid., Scourge V ij b, 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 of Gd. Society v. (new ed.) 217 A man..should never yawl out the namby-pamby ballads beloved of young ladies. |
b. (with compl.) To bring into a specified state by ‘yawling’.
| a 1627 Middleton Widow ii. i, Ile make 'em yaul one an other deaf, but ile have thee. |
Hence ˈyawling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1568 Hist. Jacob & Esau i. i. A ij, The deuill stoppe that same yallyng throte..Somwhiles. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. Babylon 228 Nigh breathlesse all, with their confuséd yawling. 1619 Pasquil's Palin. (1877) 146 Young Beagles..Whose yawling throats will never let him sleepe. 1715 C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 454 The hideous Outcries that he made, and his continual Yauling. 1719 D'Urfey Pills III. 31 A Wife, That makes him weary of his Life With Scolding, yoleing in the House. |
▪ IV. yawl, v.2 nonce-wd.
[f. yawl n.1]
trans. To convey in a yawl.
| 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxiv, When we got to the village, they yawled us ashore. |
▪ V. yawl
(jɔːl, jɑːl)
repr. (Southern) U.S. pronunc. of y'all pers. pron.
| 1919 Dialect Notes V. 40 Yawl,..you-all. 1938 C. Himes in Black on Black (1973) 167 Why doesn't yuh git happy an' praise de Lawd? Doesn' yawl know who Ah is? 1978 J. R. Gaskin in Sewanee Rev. LXXXVI. 426 Dillard accounts for y'awl, or you all, not as the simple concatenation of two English forms. |
▪ VI. yawl
var. yauld a.