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Swerves off course while sailing
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yaws
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yaws \Yaws\, n. [African yaw a raspberry.] (Med.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yaws ( Y et a nother w eb s erver) is a web server written in Erlang by Claes (klacke) Wikström. Yaws can be embedded into other Erlang-based applications or run as a regular standalone web server. Because Yaws uses Erlang's lightweight threading system, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contagious skin disease, 1670s, from Carib yaya , the native name for it.
Usage examples of yaws.
All white men in the Solomons catch yaws, and every cut or abrasion practically means another yaw.
Malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, yaws, bilharzia, and rift valley fever were everywhere in retreat under the benign rule of the Pan-African Federation.
Toward one of the largest of them, it dips, then yaws and sideslips like a falling leaf into a paved, palm-lined courtyard where fountains play with rainbows.