yawing

Verb

yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)

1. (intransitive) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
2. (intransitive) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
3. (intransitive) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
   • Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC
4. (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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