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Veering   /vˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Veer  v. t.  To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
To veer and haul (Naut.), to pull tight and slacken alternately.
To veer away or To veer out (Naut.), to let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.



Veer  v. i.  (past & past part. veered; pres. part. veering)  To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." "And as he leads, the following navy veers." "an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about."
To veer and haul (Naut.), to vary the course or direction; said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.



adjective
Veering  adj.  Shifting.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Veering" Quotes from Famous Books



... wind direction charts for Midwinter's Day, when the steady south-by-east gale was broken after noon by a welcome lull—the wind veering the while all round ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... in the world's wind veering, Thy heart was estranged from me: Sweet Echo shall yield thee not hearing: What have we ...
— Poems and Ballads (Third Series) - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne--Vol. III • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... Veering as sharply as her speed would permit, the Richard dipped like a gull and sped on to intercept the Fuor d'Italia. The shifting bank of blinding mist hung uncertainly above the shimmering waters less than half a mile ahead, dead ahead for Mascola, off ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now ...
— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various

... coldness, warmth, eastiness, sweetness, and general warpiness of the English climate, sparkling one day with the dew-drop-on-the-grass-freshness of an early summer morning, to hang the next as passing heavy on the hand as the November fog upon the new hat brim; veering within twelve hours to the sharpness of the East wind, which braces skin and temper to cracking point, and to make up for it all, for one whole hour in the twenty-four, resembling the exquisite moment of the June ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest


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