yaw (1)

i. & t. [Norw. gaga =to bend back ward; gag =bent backward; Icel. gagr =bent back; Bavarian gagen =to move unsteadily. "Prob. a reduplicated form of go; hence, to keep going about." ( Skeat.)] A. Intransitive: Naut.: To steer wild; to deviate from the line of course in steering. (Said of a ship.) ( Marryat : Frank Mildmay , ch. xx.) *B. Trans.: To move about unsteadily; to move to and fro. "[She] yaw'd her head about all sorts of ways." Hood: Sailor's Apology for Bow Legs. yaw (2), v . i . [YAws.] To rise in blisters; breaking in white froth, as cane-juice in the sugar-works. *yawd, s . [YAUD.]