Yaw
Yaw (ya) , intransitive verb
[Compare Yew, v. i.]
To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Yaw , verb, intransitive and transitive
[Compare Prov. German gagen to rock, gageln to totter, shake, Norw. gaga to bend backward, Icelandic gagr bent back, gaga to throw the neck back.]
(Nautical) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
Yaw , noun
(Nautical) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.