Read full poem →Sunless hangs the severe sky's weight,
Cloud on cloud, though the wind be veering
Heaped on high to the sundawn's gate.
Dictionary Entry
To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
Origin
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Common Phrases
off veeringaway veeringtoward veeringround veeringtowards veeringveering wind
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Poetry examples for “veering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The light vanes do themselves adjust
To every veering of the gust:
By me alone may nought be given
Read full poem →And seek another as I sought you first.
But you are mobile as the veering air,
And all your charms more changeful than the tide,
Read full poem →As then I saw--I at the gate, and he
In the house darkness,--a magpie veering about,
A magpie like a weathercock in doubt.
Read full poem →His pipe was in his month,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.
Read full poem →O Lady of all my time,
Veering unbid into my view
Whether I near Death’s mew,