YAWLとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

名詞

yawl (plural yawls)

1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:

     The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

派生した語

• → Portuguese: aiola, aiole, iole

語源 2

Imitative.

動詞

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

1. To cry out; to howl.

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アナグラム

• waly, wyla