1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles 91 Lyke a shyppe without anker holde or rother, ye wander as the variable wynde tosseth you, and so make yawes in and oute, without any right course.

?1565 J. Hawkins 2nd Voy. (1878) 9 To make three yawes, and strike the Myson three times.

1667 High Court of Admiralty Exam. 5 Nov. 77 Made a yogh.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3315/1 I crouded Sail to Leeward to him,..making a little Yaw sometimes to shew my French Ensign.

1726 H. de Saumarez in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 425 It cannot be expected but that a Ship before the Wind will deviate from her true Course, sometimes one Way, sometimes another, in her Yaws and Sheers.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §254 (note) The boat took a sudden yaw or sheer, which canted me overboard.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiii. 418 Another wide yaw and a come-to, snapped the guys.

1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) iii. 59 If under steam, a slight yaw with the helm will serve to show the direction you intend to take.

1916 G. C. Loening Military Aeroplanes xii. 166 Struts of large fineness ratio..present considerable side surface and affect the directional center, at different angles of yaw.

1935 Encycl. Aviation 585/1 Thus a roll causes a yaw, and a yaw causes a roll... When, as often, a pitch is also introduced, it soon becomes apparent why the problem is a difficult one.

1950 Engineering 3 Mar. 255/2 The Desynn type of transmitter and indicator..is used to transmit to the recording apparatus such variables as control forces, angle of yaw, pressures, etc. [in a prototype aircraft].

1974 Physics Bull. Jan. 11/1 The six component wind tunnel balance..will be able to measure three forces (lift, drag and side force) and three moments (pitch, yaw and roll) on any aircraft model it supports.

1977 Offshore Engineer May 44/3 During these tests, the data acquisition system recorded..pitch, roll, heave, surge, sway and yaw of the lay barge, pull and length of mooring cables, and anchor positions.

1978 R. Jansson News Caper 7 The Captain manoeuvred the big jet back to stability, damping out yaw and roll.

1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 34 Now and then we make yawes agaynste our wills.

a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. v. 48 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) 'Tis monstrous strong Wine: O the yaws that she'll make!

1870 C. Reade Put Yourself in his Place III. 163 Putting her left hand to his breast, she gave a great yaw, and then a forward rush with her mighty loins.

1885 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto i. iv He gave a beery yaw in the saddle.

1920 Nature 10 June 460/1 We must..determine experimentally the complete reaction of the air on the moving shell when the directions of its axis and the motion of its centre of gravity no longer coincide. In such a case the angle between these two directions is called the yaw.

1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut. Dict. 184/1 Yaw axis.

1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics ix. 368 Any vehicle motion will take place about three axes... These axes are the yaw axis, the pitch axis, and the roll axis.

1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 137/1 For the first time the machine included a pair of fixed vertical surfaces behind the wings to stabilize motion about the yaw axis.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vi. 40 A yaw-sighted bitch!

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

1744 Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) V. ii. 793 Sometimes after all the other Yaws are fallen off..there remains one large Yaw, high knobbed, red and moist; this is commonly called the Master-yaw.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 732/2 Hairs at the seat of a yaw turn white.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvii. 427 The crust which caps and encloses an uninjured yaw is yellowish.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 675 The revolting scene of a yaw-house.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 789 Yaw-weed, Morinda Royoc.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. vii. 228 The daie delaid by length of night, Which made both daie and night to yawe.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 9 To deuide him inuentorially, would dosie th' arithmaticke of memory, and yet but yaw neither in respect of his quick saile.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xvi. 259 I shot ahead, and yawed a little—caught a peep at her through her veil.

1896 Pall Mall Mag. May 80 The rider yawed in his saddle as a boat..yaws on a cross-sea swell.

1746 Fool (1748) I. 201 The Ship of State was, as the Seamen phrase it, yawed to and fro.

1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. xxxvii. 48 Owing to the unskilfulness of her pilots, she was so yawed about, that it was quite uncertain when she would be moored in a safe port.

1827 T. Hood Sailor's Apol. 41 [She] yaw'd her head about all sorts of ways.

1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iv. 168 The man at the wheel,..neglecting his helm, ‘yaws’ the ship about sadly.

1920 Engineering 8 Oct. 462/2 It was found that the control was not reversed at large angles of incidence up to 20 deg. unless the model was yawed.

1960 Welch & Denes Go Gliding i. 20 Moving the left foot forward yaws the glider's nose to the left.

1975 L. J. Clancy Aerodynamics xvi. 525 The aircraft is yawed to starboard.

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 71 His browes bent, his hand shaking, his nostrils yawing.

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 103 A fellow stretching himselfe at his window, yawing, and starting.

1917 S. Graham Priest of Ideal v. 67 The precentor in the box beneath the pulpit yawed out the tune.

1748 W. Brownrigg Art of making Common Salt ii. iv. 131 At the Lemington works..They boil the brine violently till a thin skin of salt appears on its surface. [Note] They say then that the brine begins to yew.

1797 B. Higgins Observ. & Advices Improvem. Manuf. Muscovado Sugar & Rum i. 95 It is that [herbaceous matter] which we endeavour to separate from the saccharine liquor by yawing and skimming.

1797 B. Higgins Observ. & Advices Improvem. Manuf. Muscovado Sugar & Rum i. 101 He will yaw, and check the fire and skim; and then boil moderately and skim for eight or ten minutes.

1828 Regulations to be observed in Boiling-houses in J. Shore & J. Stewart In Old St. James (1911) App. 157 Never draw down a Cyphon of Liquor until some time after it has yawed.

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C4 Soft, yaw, yaw, good Hans.

1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 1 Steph. Boy! Boy. Yaw, yaw, here Master.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop: 2nd Pt. 13 Æsop. Have you then a mind to a Wife, Sir? Beau. Yaw myn Heer.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 222 [Dirk Hatteraick loq.] Wetter and donner, yaw! What do you take me for?

1864 ‘E. Kirke’ Down in Tennessee xvi. 197 Yaw, yaw, dat is old Rosey.

1905 W. F. Cattell Valuable Fish i. 10 Mary. And of course I said yes! Mr. C. Ye said yes! Carl. Yaw! she said she said yaw!

1932 J. M. E. Saxby Shetland Trad. Lore 117 Yaw, yaw, mak de bul, but do'll no keen wha will hae him afore lang.

2009 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Yaw yaw yaw, I see your point.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. iv. 104 He will yaw a parcel of nonsense about jukes and lords.

1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 94 Yawning and muttering, ‘Reynolds is an humorist, not a wit—yaw! yaw! I am a wit!’