YAWL

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YAWL , the name of a

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

driving

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

sail. The name has also been applied to a small ship's boat rowed with four or more oars. The word is apparently an

adaptation

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

of the Dutch jol, skiff.
The

English

ENGLISH

jolly

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

-boat," a small bluff-bowed, wide-transomed ship's boat, swung at the stern of a

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas,
vase
- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
, urn)

for ready use, is probably a corruption of the Danish form of the word jolle. Other authorities take it to be a corruption of a

late

LATE

15th-

century

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

jolywat, a small ship's boat, which is supposed to represent galiote, galliot (see GALLEY). A galliot, however, was never a small boat, but an in-dependent

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas,
vase
- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
, urn)

propelled by oars or sails.

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