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Yaw

verb

(past & past part. yawed; pres. part. yawing)

Be wide open. Synonyms: gape, yawn.

Deviate erratically from a set course.

Swerve off course momentarily.

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"Yaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... chases in the history of blockade-running, it having lasted fifteen hours and covered nearly two hundred miles. Fortunate was it for the "Banshee" that the "James Adger," her pursuer, had no bow-chasers, and that the weather was too ugly for her to venture to yaw and use her broadside guns, or the "Banshee" might have there ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... 'Of Brown? yaw; Vanbeest Brown. Old Vanbeest Brown, of our Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, gave him his ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... of me gave a violent yaw, turning perhaps through twenty degrees; and almost at the same moment one shout followed another from on board; I could hear feet pounding on the companion-ladder; and I knew that the two drunkards ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... to yaw, let him yaw," is the rendering which an Anglophobiac clergyman gave of the familiar scripture, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." After hearing the name of Sir Humphry Davy pronounced, a Frenchman who ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... away the word so that "Belfry" was loudly shouted by the opposition group. The rival company acting Torture got away with it successfully, especially, complains our Yorkshire priest "as 'ure' was pronounced 'yaw' in the ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

Words linked to "Yaw" : curve, gape, deviate, slue, sheer, veer, hunt, turn, cut, slew, divert, turning, trend, be