Crossword-Solution: YAW
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Yaw | v. i. | To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works. |
| Yaw | v. i. & t. | 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. |
| Yaw | n. | A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| YAW | anagram | WAY |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with YAW (5)
Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy th’arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail.
She had evidently more on her than she could bear; yet it was in vain to try to take it in--the clewline was not strong enough; and they were thinking of cutting away, when another wide yaw and a come-to, snapped the guys, and the swinging boom came in, with a crash, against the lower rigging.
How you come to fall out?" "I was sick," said Harvey; "sick, and couldn't help it." "Just in time I blow my horn, and your boat she yaw a little.
Followed the woolly sound of the cable in the hawse-hole; and a grunt and squeal of the windlass; a yaw, a punt, and a kick, and the _We're Here_ gathered herself together to repeat the motions.
Followed the woolly sound of the cable in the hawse-hole; a grunt and squeal of the windlass; a yaw, a punt, and a kick, and the "We're Here" gathered herself together to repeat the motions.
Quotes with YAW (2)
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 177 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).