Yawl
Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Yawl, v. to cry out.
Word in the Wild: Jakeet yawled when the hammer struck his thumb. Others reported that he howled, yelled, or yowled, but I was there and maintain that he most definitely yawled.
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