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Yaw   Listen
noun
Yaw  n.  (Naut.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Yaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... bow-rudder—Magniac's rudder that assured us the dominion of the unstable air and left its inventor penniless and half-blind. It is calculated to Castelli's "gullwing" curve. Raise a few feet of that all but invisible plate three-eighths of an inch and she will yaw five miles to port or starboard ere she is under control again. Give her full helm and she returns on her track like a whip-lash. Cant the whole forward—a touch on the wheel will suffice—and she sweeps at your ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling

... can haf some of dot coffee id vill done you goot," said the Dutch lad. "I don'd pelief I vant to ead much. Mein stomach felt like id don'd been aple to held much uf a loadt. Yaw!" ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish



Words linked to "Yaw" :   veer, turning, slue, trend, turn, yawn, gape, deviate



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