Veel vs Veer - What's the difference?
veel | veer |
* c.'' 1450, ''Mirour Saluacioun
(nonstandard, British) feel
* 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire
(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
*: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.
To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Burke:
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(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
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
To turn.
As nouns the difference between veel and veer
is that veel is or veel can be (nonstandard|british) field while veer is a turn or swerve; an instance of veering.As verbs the difference between veel and veer
is that veel is (nonstandard|british) feel while veer is (obsolete|nautical) to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out or veer can be to change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.veel
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(-)- The ydolatiers of the golden veel .
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- To Veel . v. To feel.
- Veel’d. part. Felt.
Etymology 3
Derived terms
* veelvareQuotations
* 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century *: But why do they let ’un stray out of the veels ? * 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire *: Veel . s. A field; a corn land unenclosed. ----veer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) virer.Verb
(en verb)- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- And as he leads, the following navy veers .
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
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