laveer
English
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[edit]laveer (third-person singular simple present laveers, present participle laveering, simple past and past participle laveered)
- (nautical, obsolete) To beat against the wind; to tack.
- 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
- But those that 'gainst stiff Gales laveering go
Must be at once resolv'd and skilful too.