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Definition of Laveers
1. laveer [v] - See also: laveer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laveers
Literary usage of Laveers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1900)
"And, shifting sails, makes way when he laveers." DAVENANT, p. 280 of Works, fol.
1673. t The Roman emperor Otho, ..."
2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"The fly is kept skipping from wave to wave, as the boat laveers, or beats to
windward, and the fish throwing itself out of the sea to secure it with its ..."
3. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... and that side of the ship so called because it laveers or lies obliquely to
the starboard. LARCENY, s. ..."
4. The Retrospective Review by Henry Southern (1822)
"... to which since all ways equally conduce, he laveers not by sea, but ever sails
before the wind, and makes for the next port, be it where it will; ..."
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