Definition of "yowl" []

• To utter a long loud mournful cry; wail. (verb-intransitive)
• To say or utter with a yowl. (verb-transitive)
• A long loud mournful cry; a wail. (noun)

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• "Then, suddenly, he heard a sharp and ugly yowl from the bath-house park; and when he stood up he saw, in the pale moonlight, a fox standing on the pavement under the balcony."
• "Howlin' Wolf yowl, which is richer and more elastic than ever on "Bad as Me," still has a mound of dark brown hair, same style, though thinner, that he's worn since his first album in 1973."
• ""yowl," that filled the whole valley, and reverberating from the cliffs, appeared continuous."