Yaw
Pronunciation
- enPR: yô, IPA: /jÉ”Ë/
- Rhymes: -É”Ë
- Homophones: (non-rhotic accents): yore, your, you're
Full definition of yaw
Verb
- (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- LowellJust as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
- (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
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