She was also lifted by each wave and hammered over the sand into shallower water, so that the drenched and buffeted lifeboatmen had to lift anchor and follow the drifting vessel in the lifeboat, and again drop anchor and veer down as before.
The coxswains, therefore, had to try again and again before they got the proper position to veer down from.
The coxswain immediately gave the order to let go the anchor andveer down towards the wreck.
When this was accomplished they hauled clear of the wreck, intending to veer round towards the stern, where they could approach the ship with greater safety.
Here they cast anchor in such a position that by paying out cable they could veer down towards her slowly and endeavour to range up under her lee.
Footnote 133: Accounts of this expedition are given both by De Veer and Linschoten in the above-named works.
I next observe on the eastward side of this center crack a splint of about 3 inches long, which then makes a sharp veer to the southeast to the bottom of the windshield.
Would you ever stop, if necessary, if you thought there were people up there that you couldn't veer around?
A thick piece of wood on the head of a whale-boat, round which the harpooner gives the line a turn, in order to veer it steadily, and check the animal's velocity.
The wind is said to veer and haul when it alters its direction; thus it is said, to veer aft, and haul forward.
To veer a small portion of cable through the hawse-hole, or heave a little in, in order to let another part of it bear the stress and friction.
Also, to veer or wear, in contradistinction from tacking.
A short wooden bar thrust into one of the holes of the windlass or capstan in a merchantman, whereon toveer a rope or fasten the cable, if there be little strain upon it.
A breeze favouring a long tack near to the required course, and which may be expected to veer to fair.
To drop an anchor under foot, is to let it go and veer a little of the riding cable when the coming home, or parting of the one by which she is riding, is feared.
Down, down the lifeboatmen veer to the wreck, held safely by the mighty hawser, and light after light is burned.
No, we'll veer down to her, for we lie to windward.
After we strike Jupiter Light, we veer off into the Atlantic out of sight of land.
The wind, which had hitherto been so steady, though varying in strength, now dropped considerably, and began to veer about, so as to require the hands constantly at the braces.
Would to Heaven the breeze would veer a few more points to the southward, and enable us to lay up to her before the mistico reaches her.
A strong southerly breeze would make it almost impossible to land on the southern shore of the island, and it was this tendency of the wind to veer to the south'ard which gave him so much anxiety.
To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.
To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.
A23P] swerve or veer while in flight or traveling at very high speed.
B26] for attention, thought to veer off on a target.
Sometimes, in an evening, the wind would become moderate, andveer to the southward; but this was always a sure prelude to a storm, which blew the hardest at S.
If the wind should veer farther to the southward, and become S.
Just as we were going to weigh the anchor, to proceed farther up the bay, it began to blow and to rain as hard as before; so that we were obliged to veer away the cable again, and lay fast.
I should read Hawthorne and Emerson and Holmes, and dream in my armchair, and project in the clouds those lovely unwritten stories that curl and veer and change like mist-wreaths in the sun.
To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
Elmer had shifted his tiller just enough to change the course of his boat, and veer slightly to leeward.
The shore was too close by; and if they continued to veer to leeward both must go aground, to the utter demoralization of the delicate craft.
The men at the handspikes must veer steadily, occasionally checking the torpedo, that it may be kept near the surface, and not allowed to dive, which it will do if the tow rope is slacked up altogether, and then a sudden strain brought on it.
In this case veer a torpedo astern, having first obtained a position a little on the bow of the chasing vessel.
For a few minutes no effect was produced, and then the creature under water did seem to veer over toward the shore where the girls were slowly walking along.
Sometimes the boat appeared to be coming close in shore, and again it would veer out.
The captain tells his lieutenant to BID HIS BARK VEER ROUND to a point in the harbor.
I reckon I can veer quickly enough if--" The telephone rang.
It had pleased her suddenly to veer around and resume the play; and far be it from him to balk her.
After following along the margin of the placid Merced we veer abruptly to the left at the first trail junction.
Continuing along the shaded highway, we veer to the south, passing close to the foot of ~Bridalveil Fall~, charming glimpses of which are here and there revealed between the trees.
On board the life-boat they veer out the cable rapidly; many fathoms run out, but still they seem to get no nearer the wreck, on the contrary, the wreck is getting farther and farther from them.
Over with the anchor; veer out as little cable as she will ride to; hold on, stand ready all!
They anchored the boat as near to the wreck as they could venture, and then let the cable veer out until the boat was under the vessel's jib-boom.
To veer cable, to let more out, to let the ship go farther from the anchor.
A pebble or two, if authorities napped for a moment, might have been inserted to make a wheel veer awry.
