Meaning

noun a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)

noun a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

verb emit long loud cries

originApparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

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