Veername

• 1

  A surname.

veerverb詞源 1/vɪə̯/

• 1

  obsoletenauticaltransportTo let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.

  • As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

veernoun詞源 2/vɪə̯/

• 1

  A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

  • […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.

veerverb詞源 2/vɪə̯/

• 1

  To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

  • The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
  • And as he leads, the following navy veers.
• 2

  To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).

  • 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
• 3

  nauticaltransportTo shift aft.

• 4

  nauticaltransportTo change direction into the wind; to wear ship.

• 5

  To turn.

veernoun詞源 3/vɪə̯/

• 1

  A piglet or a heifer.

  • But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass.