Usage examples (33)

• We sailed a fifty foot long yawl through the islands of the Caribbean.
• No human skill could prevent the water from combing in over the gunwales; and when the danger was passed, the yawl was a third filled with water.
• And depending on the number of beers you've had or just how close to Austin you really are it comes out "yawl" anyway leaving the punctuation completely ambiguous.
• He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern.