laveer, v. Naut. Obs. exc. in literary use.
(ləˈvɪə(r))
Forms: 6–7 lavere, (7 laver, -eir, -ier, 7–8 loft-veer), 7– laveer.
[ad. Du. laveeren, in 17th c. also loevéren, MDu. laeveren, loveren, ad. F. (16th c.) loveer, now louvoyer (for the suffix in Du. cf. domineren domineer v.), f. lof windward (of Du. or LG. origin: see luff). The Du. word has been adopted in other langs. as G. lavieren, Sw. lofvera, Da. lavere.]
intr. To beat to windward; to tack.
| 1598 W. Phillips tr. Linschoten i. xcvi. 179 The Indian ships..durst not anker there; but only vsed to lauere to and fro. 1608 Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers' Reasons for Refus. Subscript. 149 The winde being against him, he laveirs and turneth another tacke. 1648 Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 163 Lie on a Tack Port and Laveer, Sometimes to weather, then to Lee. 1662 Dryden Astræa Redux 65 Those that 'gainst stiff gales laveering go, Must be at once resolv'd and skilful too. 1718 J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) II. xix. §58 They can always pass through this Streight by Laveering or Tacking, even tho' the Wind be contrary. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxiii. 593 It went for the Chesapeake, laveering against the stiff southerly winds of the season. |
| fig. a 1667 Cowley Liberty Verses & Ess. (1687) 81 To bend and turn about his own Nature, and laveer with every wind. 1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 319 Instead of bearing down on the point for which he is bound..Klopstock is continually laveering. 1885 C. L. Pirkis Lady Lovelace II. xxiii. 55 Neither skilful nor resolved enough to ‘laveer’ against them [the fates]. |
Hence
† laˈveerer, one who laveers.
| 1670 Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 183 They [the School⁓men] are the best Laveerers of the World. |