Verb

(en verb)

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.

* (rfdate), Dryden:

And as he leads, the following navy veers .

* (rfdate), Burke:

An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.}}

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.

* ,

But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer .

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}

(archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt; to flout.

* Ben Jonson

And if we cannot jeer' them, we ' jeer ourselves.