a. [f. VEER v.2 1.] † Of the wind: Tending to veer; changeable.

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1670–1.  Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 56. The wind veerable round the compass.

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1698.  Corant, in Dampier, Voy. (1699), II. III. 55. When we find the Winds … veerable to S.W. and back to South, we stand off to the Westward.

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1712.  W. Rogers, Voy. (1718), 13. Yesterday the wind was very little and veerable.

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1742.  Woodroofe, in Hanway Trav. (1762), I. II. xxiii. 98. The winds being light and veerable favored us very much.

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