yaw

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  1. intransitive verb Nautical To swerve off course momentarily or temporarily: The ship yawed as the heavy wave struck abeam.
  2. intransitive verb To turn about the vertical axis. Used of an aircraft, spacecraft, or projectile.
  3. intransitive verb To move unsteadily; weave.
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  • The roll, yaw, and roll maneuvers necessary to align Surveyor's thrust-axis with the Moon were made with perfection. —  Analog October, 1966
  • Pitch, yaw, and roll slowed dramatically, without altogether stopping. —  AnalogSF,Dec2003
  • CANDIDATE 6: Now it's essentially a yaw, a positive yaw, and we are going to twist straight. —  The Walrus Magazine
  • My personal fave recently was his fear of a plastic stingray toy that was designed and molded to have all of its teeth wide open in a menacing yaw, and it just happened to be positioned in such a way for the little guy to see it and get freaked out. —  HumidCity
  • De Captain he nebber eat no breakfast; he say et ain't good fer his libber--yaw; yaw!--but de mates dey both bin down What time is it Most ten, sah I did sleep, that 's a fact, Louis. —  Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Cf. Norwegian gaga, bend backward, from gagr (= Icelandic gagr, bent back); German dial. gagen, rock, move unsteadily.
  2. from yaw, v.
  3. Said to be from African yaw, a raspberry.
  4. from yaw, n.
 

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