Definition for WARE

WARE, v.t. [pret. Wore. This is evidently from the root of veer. See Veer.]

To cause a ship to change her course from one board to the other, by turning her stern to the wind; opposed to tacking, in which the head is turned to the wind; as, to ware a ship. We wore ship and stood to the southward.

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