What is "careen"

Usage examples of "careen".

Here, in the days before the coming of the Yankee, they were wont to put in to careen and clean their vessels and to take in a fresh supply of provisions, gunpowder, and rum, preparatory to renewing their attacks upon the peaceful commerce circulating up and down outside the islands, or through the wide stretches of the Bahama channel.

The fourth, incomplete album began with a sparkle of her chastest images: Armande in a pink parka, Armande jewel-bright, Armande careening on skis through the sugar dust.

Lenore from her musing and brought her flying to the french doors just in time to see the carriage careen up the drive and come to a skidding halt in front of the house.

Diomedes killed two sons of Dardan Priam careening on in a single car, Echemmon and Chromius.

The big fieldpiece careened wildly to port as Barbousse skidded out onto the apron, then again to starboard as they raced along the periphery of the pit.

I snap my right leg back around frontwards, get down in a squat like a tubing surfer, and careen along two feet from the car doors like a little cannonball.

I face frontwards just in time to hurdle a leash that connects a woman and a squirrel-sized dog, and careen into the street.

Miller tracts to the crowds outside the Ohio prison as the clock ticked down to Injection, little Bruce in tow, blank-faced and watching, the crowd of media and anti-Capital activists and Defarge-like picnickers milling and roiling, many T-shirts for sale, and the red-faced men in sportcoats and fezzes, oh their rage-twisted faces the same red as their fezzes as the men careened this way and that in their little cars, formations of motorized Shriners buzzing the gates of the O.

Freeport of Gijon, friend Bass, a place in which any honest seamanand many a one not so honest, as wellcould sail in to take on water and victuals, sell loot or other cargoes, trade goods, and even careen ships or repair battle-wrought damages.

The Nasat turned in her direction too late to avoid the cargo container careening off the deck and heading directly for her.

In her mad dash, the woman careened off a couple of middle-aged tourists and sent them sprawling in a tangle of baggy blue jeans and orthotic sneakers.

A little man, so wizened even his bald head was wrinkly, a paintpot dangling over his arm, careened into me as I came through the door.

Then the chair careened sidewise, and the Pindari shot downward, his forehead striking a marble slab, stunning him.

An orange-taxi driver is anyone who happens to own a car and wants to earn a few rials by careening down the main roads with a dozen or so passengers jammed inside.

Unguided, our vessel careened wildly in its mad flight, rising ever nearer the rocks above.