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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 908 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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YAWL , the name of a See also:

SPECIAL

special rig of small sailing vessels or yachts, with two masts, the mainmast cutter-rigged, and a small mizzen stepped far aft with a spanker or See also:

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving See also:

SAIL

sail. The name has also been applied to a small See also:

SHIP

ship's See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat rowed with four or more oars. The word is apparently an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the Dutch jol, skiff. The See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

JOLLY (from O. Fr. jolif; Fr. joli, the French word is obscure in origin; it may be from late Lat. gaudivus, from gaudere, to rejoice, the change of d to 1 being paralleled by cigada and cigale, or from O. Norse jol, Eng. " yule," the northern festival of

jolly-boat," a small See also:

BLUFF (a word of uncertain origin; possibly connected with an obsolete Dutch word, blaf, broad)

bluff-bowed, wide-transomed ship's boat, swung at the stern of a See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel for ready use, is probably a corruption of the Danish See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the word jolle. Other authorities take it to be a corruption of a See also:

LATE

late 15th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century jolywat, a small ship's boat, which is supposed to represent galiote, galliot (see See also:

GALLEY (derived through the 0. Fr. galee, galie, from the Med. Lat. galea, Ital. galea, Port. gale, of uncertain origin; from the Med. Lat. variant form galera are derived the Mod. Fr. galere, Span. and Ital. galera)

GALLEY). A galliot, however, was never a small boat, but an in-dependent vessel propelled by oars or sails.

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