List of synonyms from "yardstick" to synonyms from "year in year out"
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Definition of the day : « yaw »
- verb temporarily swerve off coarse
- verb swerve
- The screw is always edging a ship off, and the lighter the ballast the wider the yaw.
- Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
- The Yaw Derevocsid Eht, said everybody who looked at the writing.
- Extract from : « Peter the Priest » by Mr Jkai
- Here, pull harder, Steve; you're lettin' her yaw around terrible.
- Extract from : « Afloat on the Flood » by Lawrence J. Leslie
- It was as large as a silver dollar, that yaw, and it took all of three weeks to heal.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Snark » by Jack London
- "Yaw, yaw," replied the spectre-crew, put into motion by the order.
- Extract from : « George Cruikshank's Omnibus » by George Cruikshank
- Take a Swede or a Dutchman: it's yaw yaw with them to the end of their time.
- Extract from : « My Danish Sweetheart., Volume 2 of 3 » by William Clark Russell
- The Chins in the valley of the Yaw and its tributaries were raiders.
- Extract from : « The Pacification of Burma » by Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite
- Yaw—To swerve from side to side as a vessel does when running free.
- Extract from : « On Yacht Sailing » by Thomas Fleming Day
- I will yaw the ship, and as your guns come to bear, slap it right into his bows.
- Extract from : « Tom Cringle's Log » by Michael Scott
- As the ship jumped and began to yaw, she was thrown across the cabin.
- Extract from : « Sinister Paradise » by Robert Moore Williams