These are the meanings of the letters YAWK when you unscramble them.
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Way (adv.)
Away.
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Way (n.)
That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
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Way (n.)
Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
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Way (n.)
A moving; passage; procession; journey.
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Way (n.)
Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
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Way (n.)
The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
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Way (n.)
Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
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Way (n.)
Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
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Way (n.)
Sphere or scope of observation.
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Way (n.)
Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
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Way (n.)
Progress; as, a ship has way.
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Way (n.)
The timbers on which a ship is launched.
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Way (n.)
The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
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Way (n.)
Right of way. See below.
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Way (v. t.)
To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
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Way (v. i.)
To move; to progress; to go.
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Yak (n.)
A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.
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Yaw (v. i.)
To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
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Yaw (v. i. & t.)
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.
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Yaw (n.)
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.