veer
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Is veer a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.Examples: "As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.Examples: "The car slid on the ice and veered out of control."; "And as he leads, the following navy veers."; "We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about."intransitive
2. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Examples: "1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense."intransitive
3. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.intransitive
4. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.intransitive
5. (transitive) To turn.transitive
noun (English)
1. (Cornwall) A piglet or a heifer.Examples: "But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass."Cornwall
Definition source: Wiktionary