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Word entry · 3 letters

yaw

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"Plane-axis swerve"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /jɔː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted awyStarts with YEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. swerve off course momentarily

Word origin

Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).

Used in a sentence

  • the yaw of an aircraft
  • Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
  • Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]

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