Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Yodel \Yo"del\, Yodle \Yo"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Yodeled}, {Yodled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yodeling}, {Yodling}.]
   [G. jodeln.]
   To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese
   mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or
   falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.