[f. FLAW sb.2] a. intr. Of the wind: To blow in gusts. b. trans. To ruffle as a flaw of wind does. rare.
1805. Flinders, in Phil. Trans., XCVI. 245. On the wind dying off, and flawing from one side and the other, it [the mercury] descended quickly to 30 inches.
1891. Stevenson, South Seas, II. xvi., in Age (Melbourne), 20 June, 4/3. Long catspaws flawed the face of the lagoon.
