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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), of uncertain origin. Also borrowed into French (
yole
), Italian (
jolo
), Russian (
yal
).
