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Yaw   /jɔ/   Listen
Yaw

verb
(past & past part. yawed; pres. part. yawing)
1.
Be wide open.  Synonyms: gape, yawn.
2.
Deviate erratically from a set course.
3.
Swerve off course momentarily.






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"Yaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these engines to be going along a railroad at a rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line, and get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yaw," replied Stephenson, in his broad Northumbrian dialect, "ay, awkward—for the coo." On account of his speech Stephenson was denounced as a "foreigner," and the bill was thrown out by the committee, by a vote of 37 against 36. After a second Parliamentary ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... nooshpapers! oh yaw! yaw! ay, dat ish it. A man vat printish nooshpapers! Yaw! yaw! Valk up! a man vat printish nooshpapers! I vish I may pe shot if I didn't dink you vas a poor old dishtrict schoolmaster, who verks for notting and poards ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various



Words linked to "Yaw" :   deviate, divert, sheer, slue, be, slew, hunt, cut, trend, veer, gape, curve, turning, turn



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