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Answer for the clue "Swerve off course momentarily ", 3 letters:
yaw

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n. an erratic deflection from an intended course [syn: swerve ]

Usage examples of yaw.

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.

Mateu, the unvindictive Gloire did not yaw to reply, but hauled her wind.

The see-saw bridged the gap between two types of space, and La Cucaracha yawed wildly down it, an indignity for an old lady who, at her age, should ride sedately through free void-but she was a hyper ship first and a lady second.

Tore it off with a shreek, terrible, shuddering bang, and then came a grating sound of shearing metal, exploding in his ears, the Norseman yawing violently to the left.

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.

Then Sulke turned our collective attention to the roll and yaw techniques, which took up the rest of the class period.

Once they were in the heart of the Yaw Ma Tei district, the congestion got worse still.

He pretended to be the friend of Yawer Cameron, then betrayed him, and he will do the same to you.

The yawer, balked of his prey, must have decided to linger outside to see what he could learn.

Ross worked his way through the sweaty enthusiastic crowd, Yawer Shahid Mahmud and another soldier behind him.

Juliet slipped cautiously around the corner of the stables, only to run straight into the unsteady form of Yawer Shahid Mahmud.

However, he was outranked and outshouted, so grudgingly he allowed the yawer to take three soldiers.

A tall bearded Pathan had a terrifying few minutes at the hands of a Bokharan soldier before the yawer himself verified that the suspect was not Khilburn.

Your mission is over, for your officer, Yawer Shahid Mahmud, is dead and the ferengi is mortally wounded.