veered

Verb (1)

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

1. (obsolete) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
   • 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.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

1. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
   • The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
2. (intransitive) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
   • 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.1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
3. (intransitive) To shift aft.
4. (intransitive) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
5. (transitive) To turn.

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