yawl

noun

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.

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

verb

1. To cry out; to howl.

   “Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.”