Usually means: Change direction suddenly; turn aside.
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  1. veer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. veer, veer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. veer, veer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. veer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. veer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Veer, veer: Wordnik
  7. veer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. veer: Wiktionary
  9. veer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. veer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. veer: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. veer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. veer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Veer (disambiguation), Veer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Veer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. veer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. veer: Rhymezone
  19. veer, veer (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. veer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. veer: Free Dictionary
  22. veer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. veer: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. veer: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Veer: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
noun:  A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
verb:  (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
verb:  (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
verb:  (transitive) To turn.

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