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veer

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Verb

veer (veers, present participle veering; past and past participle veered)

(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:
  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.

Noun

veer (plural veers)

A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
- 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.

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Verb

veer (veers, present participle veering; past and past participle veered)

(intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- , Dryden:
  And as he leads, the following navy veers.
- , Burke:
  An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
(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).
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear#Verb|wear ship.
(transitive) To turn.

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