- Deviate (of ship) - Deviate temporarily, as a ship - Veer off course on way back - To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice
in the clarifiers in sugar works. - To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to
deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a
ship. - A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her
course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.