verb

• (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
  "As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat."

verb

• (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
  "The car slid on the ice and veered out of control."
• (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
  "1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense."
• (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
• (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.

noun

• (Cornwall) A piglet or a heifer.
  "But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass."