Definitions for yaws
yaws
yaws
Spelling: [yawz]
IPA: /yɔz/
Yaws is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 20 anagrams from letters in yaws (aswy).
Definitions for yaws
noun
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an infectious, nonvenereal tropical disease, primarily of children, characterized by raspberrylike eruptions of the skin and caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is closely related to the agent of syphilis.
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a movement of deviation from a direct course, as of a ship.
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a motion of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
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an angle, to the right or left, determined by the direction of motion of an aircraft or spacecraft and its vertical and longitudinal plane of symmetry.
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the act of yawing.
the angular displacement of the longitudinal axis due to yawing.
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one of the lesions of yaws.
verb (used with object)
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to cause to yaw.
verb (used without object)
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to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
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(of an aircraft) to have a motion about its vertical axis.
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(of a rocket or guided missile) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by oscillation of the longitudinal axis in the horizontal plane.
Origin of yaws
From Carib, dating back to 1670-80; See origin at -s3
Examples for yaws
yaws,” he said, with a silly grin, looking at the coin and then clasping it tight; “what do yuh warnt me to dew?
“yaws;” and Jim broke into a trot which he kept up until he reached his own porch.
I went to a doctor, who burnt out my yaws with caustic potash.
The yaws is not a dangerous, although a very disgusting, disease.
We shall see her colours presently if she yaws to fire at us.
And this in a more fierce, and virulent degree, I take to be the yaws.
She yaws like a galliot in a gale, and takes the whole road like a drunken man.
It is impossible to estimate the mortality directly due to yaws.
What in the name of natur does he mean by his spracks and his yaws?
Martin inquired about yaws, for here was a man who ought to know.