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Definition of Laveering
1. laveer [v] - See also: laveer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laveering
Literary usage of Laveering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors. by John Timbs (1829)
"How easy 'tis when destiny proves kind, With full spread sails to run before the
wind; But they who 'gainst stiff gales laveering go, Must be at once ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"But those that 'gainst stiff gales laveering Must be at once resolv'd and skilful
too. He would not, like soft Otho, hope prevent, But stay'd and suffer'd ..."
3. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1867)
"... Dearly did the Cherokees aly their rising." " The Landgrave of Hesse, though
a Roman Convertite. " " laveering against the southerly winds. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, But those that 'gainst stiff gales
laveering go, Must be at once resolv'd and skilful too. ..."
5. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1858)
"When the ebb was passed we weighed anchor, passed Hellgate at low water, and
arrived, by laveering and rowing, ..."
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