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veering

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veering [′virĀ·iŋ]
(meteorology)
In international usage, a change in wind direction in a clockwise sense (for example, south to southwest to west) in either hemisphere of the earth.
According to widespread usage among United States meteorologists, a change in wind direction in a clockwise sense in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.


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M'Kenzie immediately determined to return with him to Astoria, and, veering about, the two parties encamped together for the night.
No word was spoken, but at once the yacht began a most astonishing performance, veering and yawing as though the greenest of amateurs was at the wheel.
For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American coast was left unexplored.
 
 
 
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