yawl
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
yawl sailing vessel, usually fore-and-aft rigged, with a large mainmast forward. It carries a mainsail and jibs and a much smaller mizzenmast abaft the rudder post. In the United States yawls are in wide use as yachts.
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