[f. VEER v.1 3.] The action of causing or allowing to run out; attrib. in veering cable, chain.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 711. The veering cable, that cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse.
1894. Times, 20 March, 3/5. From the top of the swivel a single veering chain passed into the lightship through the hawse pipe.
