How to pronounce yaw

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What yaw means

verb

To swerve from side to side off a straight course

In a sentence: The little boat began to yaw as the big waves pushed it around.

Where it comes from: It was first written down in the middle of the 1500s. No one is sure where it came from, but it is perhaps linked to an old Norse word meaning "to chase" or "to move back and forth."

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