veer🔊

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

(turn) A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

(change) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

(of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002

(of the wind) To shift aft.

(nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.

To turn.