veer

1. 1

   To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.obsolete

   • 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.

1. 1

   A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

   • […] 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.

1. 1

   To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.intransitive

   • The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
2. 2

   To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).intransitive

   • 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
3. 3

   To shift aft.intransitive

4. 4

   To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.intransitive

5. 5

   To turn.transitive

ant. back · haul forward

1. 1

   A piglet or a heifer.Cornwall

   • 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.