What's the difference between yawl and yawp?

Yawl


Definition:

  • (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  • (v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.

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Yawp


Definition:

  • (v. & n.) See Yaup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This weekend, while commentators yawped on about local democracy, and Ed Miliband vowed he’d close the chasm between the rich and the rest of us by a whole couple of centimetres, a bunch of young women in east London just got on and did it.
  • (2) If one accepts Iran's ruling that Jafar Panahi is no longer a film-maker , then it follows that his latest release is an orphan, unnamed and unclassifiable; a 75-minute yawp in the darkness.