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Definition of Laveered
1. laveer [v] - See also: laveer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laveered
Literary usage of Laveered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia, the Frozen by Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev (1806)
"Ou the 3d we laveered with a north wind in Behring's Strait, betwixt the north
eastern cape of Asia and the north western cape of America. ..."
2. East Jersey Under the Proprietary Governments: A Narrative of Events by William Adee Whitehead (1875)
"We both laveered together with our yachts that same evening towards the end of
Staten Island, and cast there our anchors just opposite the ..."
3. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"... for that the Admirall and all the Gentlemen that were in the shippe pumped
both day and night, as their 1 Better, "laveered", ie, beat about. 2 Orig. ..."
4. The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions, (1594, 1595, and by Gerrit de Veer, Charles Tilstone Beke (1876)
"... —"laveered", ie, advanced by repeated short tacks. 3 " Baste"—1'h. A misprint.
* Eeu schots ys—a piece of drift ice. 5 A critical history of this animal ..."
5. Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany by Thomas Hood (1844)
"Further out, laveered a larger vessel, with sails all set, but almost motionless
upon the waters. " Ah! " said Nicholas, " Anderson has got a bad wind. ..."
6. History of France from the Invasion of Clovis to the Republic of 1870 by Émile de Bonnechose (1878)
"... he said to him : " I have laveered between parties as Henry IV. did, and I
have this advantage over him, that I die in my bed at the Tuileries; ..."
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