veeringn.¹

Etymology: < veer v.¹ 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering.

The action of causing or allowing to run out; attributive in veering cable, veering chain.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > which can be paid out as necessary

veering cable1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 711 The veering cable, that cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse.

1894 Times 20 Mar. 3/5 From the top of the swivel a single veering chain passed into the lightship through the hawse pipe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

veeringn.²

Etymology: < veer v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering.

The action or fact of changing course or direction.

a. Of the wind (or a vane), or in general use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun]

wentc1374

turning1426

turnagain1545

wrench1549

yaw1597

veer1611

veering1611

version1625

wheelinga1660

sway1818

whiffle1842

twizzle1848

split-turn1932

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > change of direction > specific

scant1595

veering1611

backing1686

westing1834

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Virement, a veering, whirling, wheeling.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 291 The Temper of the Air..will not now depend on the Season of the Year alone, but on the veering of the Wind.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. i. 251 Scipio..asked whether the veering of the wind in the political horizon might not blow me some good.

1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) iv. §31. 168 Nothing apparently can be more capricious than the shifting and veering of a weather-cock on a gusty day.

1860 Vaughan in Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 323 The direction and veering of the wind..gave him..warning.

b. Of a ship. Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > ability to answer helm > tendency to go off course > swerving or deviation

yaw1546

yawinga1614

sheering1627

veeringa1682

sheer1694

sheer-off1808

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 2 Expect rough Seas, Flaws, and contrary Blasts, and 'tis well if by many cross Tacks and Veerings you arrive at the Port.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) It is evident, that veering as well as tacking is a necessary consequence of the same..principle.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 177/2 The disadvantage of veering is that..the ship is sometimes carried far to leeward.

1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 301 After some tacking and veering, we worked up to the entrance.

c. In figurative uses.

ΚΠ

1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 25. ⁋7 A soveraign..that is prone to fall in with all the Turns and Veerings of the People.

1780 J. Brown Lett. Toleration (1803) II. 216 After much sinful veering towards the abjured abominations of Popery, they..lamented their perfidy to God.

1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 147 The strange and apparently inconsistent veerings in Cromwell's own mind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

veeringn.³

Etymology: Variant of feering n.

English regional (southern).

= feering n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > furrow > methods of turning furrow

henting?a1605

veering1733

ribbling1770

casting1825

cut-and-cover1839

back-striking1844

gathering1846

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 54 The Word Veering..is the Plowman's Term for Turning two Furrows toward each other, as they must do to begin a Ridge; and therefore they call the Top of a Ridge, a Veering.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 54 Our Intervals wholly consist either of Veerings or Hentings.

1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 115 Veering Ploughed land is said to be laid out into broad veerings, when many furrows are turned up on each side against the same ridge.

1882–90 in Glouc. and Worc. glossaries.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

veeringadj.

Etymology: < veer v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering.

1. Changing course or direction; †turning round, revolving.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective]

turning1495

veering1605

wheeling1716

sheering1896

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating

rolling?1518

turning1558

gyreful1566

gyring1590

revoluble1598

ambient?1614

vertiginous1680

revolving1681

rotating1757

veering1798

gyratory1815

peristrephic1816

peristrephical1827

gyral1828

gyrating1837

volutory1839

volvent1898

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 490 On th' other side [of the astrolabe], vnder a veering Sight, A Table veers.

1736 T. Yalden Poet. Wks. (1833) 66 Nor tax me with inconstancy; we find The driving bark requires a veering wind.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 205/2 The veering helm the dexterous Steersman stops.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xlii. 165 Like a bright veering cloud Grey blossoms twinkle there.

1873 R. W. Church On some Influences Christianity upon National Char. i. 17 Fickle as the veering wind.

1896 Strand Mag. 12 250 A ringing shout of encouragement rent the veering smoke-wreaths.

2. figurative. Vacillating, variable, changeful.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

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fluctuant1575

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voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

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vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective]

unfastc888

unstathelfasteOE

unsteadfasta1200

fleeting?c1225

changeablea1275

ficklea1275

unstablec1290

waveringc1315

flickerc1325

loose in the haftc1325

motleyc1380

unsadc1384

variablea1387

variantc1386

ticklec1400

inconstant1402

flitting1413

brittle1420

plianta1425

mutablec1425

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

moonishc1450

unconstant1483

unfirm1483

varying?a1500

pliablea1513

fluctuant1575

changeling1577

shittle-headed1580

cheverel1583

off and on1583

chameleon-like1589

changeful1590

limber1602

unsteady1604

ticklish1606

skittish1609

startling1619

labile1623

uncertaina1625

cheverelized1625

remuant1625

fluctuate1631

fluctuary1632

various1636

contrarious1643

epileptical1646

fluxilea1654

shittle-braineda1655

multivolent1656

totter-headed1662

on and off1668

self-inconsistent1678

weathercocka1680

whifflinga1680

versatile1682

veering1684

fast and loose1697

inconsistent1709

insteadfast1728

unfixing1810

unsteadied1814

chameleonic1821

labefact1874

ballastless1884

weathercocky1886

whiffle-minded1902

1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 15 But if a wild Uncertainty prevail, And turn your Veering heart with ev'ry Gale.

1747 W. Collins Odes 49 Of diff'ring Themes the veering Song was mix'd.

c1838 E. B. Browning Island xix Man's veering heart and careless eyes.

1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. III. xvii. 262 It was thought a veering speech the Duke had just made in the House of Peers.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 116 After much veering legislation.., Justinian enacted that a man or a woman who divorced without a cause should retire to a cloister.

Derivatives

Thesaurus »

ˈveeringly adv. ‘changingly, shiftingly’ (Webster, 1847).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1867

n.²1611

n.³1733

adj.1605

单词	veering
释义	veeringn.¹ Etymology: < veer v.¹ 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering. The action of causing or allowing to run out; attributive in veering cable, veering chain. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > which can be paid out as necessary veering cable1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 711 The veering cable, that cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse. 1894 Times 20 Mar. 3/5 From the top of the swivel a single veering chain passed into the lightship through the hawse pipe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). veeringn.² Etymology: < veer v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering. The action or fact of changing course or direction. a. Of the wind (or a vane), or in general use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] wentc1374 turning1426 turnagain1545 wrench1549 yaw1597 veer1611 veering1611 version1625 wheelinga1660 sway1818 whiffle1842 twizzle1848 split-turn1932 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > change of direction > specific scant1595 veering1611 backing1686 westing1834 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Virement, a veering, whirling, wheeling. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 291 The Temper of the Air..will not now depend on the Season of the Year alone, but on the veering of the Wind. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. i. 251 Scipio..asked whether the veering of the wind in the political horizon might not blow me some good. 1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) iv. §31. 168 Nothing apparently can be more capricious than the shifting and veering of a weather-cock on a gusty day. 1860 Vaughan in Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 323 The direction and veering of the wind..gave him..warning. b. Of a ship. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > ability to answer helm > tendency to go off course > swerving or deviation yaw1546 yawinga1614 sheering1627 veeringa1682 sheer1694 sheer-off1808 a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 2 Expect rough Seas, Flaws, and contrary Blasts, and 'tis well if by many cross Tacks and Veerings you arrive at the Port. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) It is evident, that veering as well as tacking is a necessary consequence of the same..principle. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 177/2 The disadvantage of veering is that..the ship is sometimes carried far to leeward. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 301 After some tacking and veering, we worked up to the entrance. c. In figurative uses. ΚΠ 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 25. ⁋7 A soveraign..that is prone to fall in with all the Turns and Veerings of the People. 1780 J. Brown Lett. Toleration (1803) II. 216 After much sinful veering towards the abjured abominations of Popery, they..lamented their perfidy to God. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 147 The strange and apparently inconsistent veerings in Cromwell's own mind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). veeringn.³ Etymology: Variant of feering n. English regional (southern). = feering n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > furrow > methods of turning furrow henting?a1605 veering1733 ribbling1770 casting1825 cut-and-cover1839 back-striking1844 gathering1846 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 54 The Word Veering..is the Plowman's Term for Turning two Furrows toward each other, as they must do to begin a Ridge; and therefore they call the Top of a Ridge, a Veering. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 54 Our Intervals wholly consist either of Veerings or Hentings. 1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 115 Veering Ploughed land is said to be laid out into broad veerings, when many furrows are turned up on each side against the same ridge. 1882–90 in Glouc. and Worc. glossaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2019). veeringadj. Etymology: < veer v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈveering. 1. Changing course or direction; †turning round, revolving. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] turning1495 veering1605 wheeling1716 sheering1896 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating rolling?1518 turning1558 gyreful1566 gyring1590 revoluble1598 ambient?1614 vertiginous1680 revolving1681 rotating1757 veering1798 gyratory1815 peristrephic1816 peristrephical1827 gyral1828 gyrating1837 volutory1839 volvent1898 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 490 On th' other side [of the astrolabe], vnder a veering Sight, A Table veers. 1736 T. Yalden Poet. Wks. (1833) 66 Nor tax me with inconstancy; we find The driving bark requires a veering wind. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 205/2 The veering helm the dexterous Steersman stops. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xlii. 165 Like a bright veering cloud Grey blossoms twinkle there. 1873 R. W. Church On some Influences Christianity upon National Char. i. 17 Fickle as the veering wind. 1896 Strand Mag. 12 250 A ringing shout of encouragement rent the veering smoke-wreaths. 2. figurative. Vacillating, variable, changeful. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] unfastc888 unstathelfasteOE unsteadfasta1200 fleeting?c1225 changeablea1275 ficklea1275 unstablec1290 waveringc1315 flickerc1325 loose in the haftc1325 motleyc1380 unsadc1384 variablea1387 variantc1386 ticklec1400 inconstant1402 flitting1413 brittle1420 plianta1425 mutablec1425 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 moonishc1450 unconstant1483 unfirm1483 varying?a1500 pliablea1513 fluctuant1575 changeling1577 shittle-headed1580 cheverel1583 off and on1583 chameleon-like1589 changeful1590 limber1602 unsteady1604 ticklish1606 skittish1609 startling1619 labile1623 uncertaina1625 cheverelized1625 remuant1625 fluctuate1631 fluctuary1632 various1636 contrarious1643 epileptical1646 fluxilea1654 shittle-braineda1655 multivolent1656 totter-headed1662 on and off1668 self-inconsistent1678 weathercocka1680 whifflinga1680 versatile1682 veering1684 fast and loose1697 inconsistent1709 insteadfast1728 unfixing1810 unsteadied1814 chameleonic1821 labefact1874 ballastless1884 weathercocky1886 whiffle-minded1902 1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 15 But if a wild Uncertainty prevail, And turn your Veering heart with ev'ry Gale. 1747 W. Collins Odes 49 Of diff'ring Themes the veering Song was mix'd. c1838 E. B. Browning Island xix Man's veering heart and careless eyes. 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. III. xvii. 262 It was thought a veering speech the Duke had just made in the House of Peers. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 116 After much veering legislation.., Justinian enacted that a man or a woman who divorced without a cause should retire to a cloister. Derivatives Thesaurus » ˈveeringly adv. ‘changingly, shiftingly’ (Webster, 1847). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1867n.²1611n.³1733adj.1605
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veeringn.1

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veeringadj.

Derivatives

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