rock, careen, sway, tilt
(noun) pitching dangerously to one side
careen, wobble, shift, tilt
(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way; “The ship careened out of control”
stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen
(verb) walk as if unable to control one’s movements; “The drunken man staggered into the room”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
careen (third-person singular simple present careens, present participle careening, simple past and past participle careened)
(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
(nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.
To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
To tilt or lean while in motion. [from late 19th c.]
(chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. [from at least early 20th c.]
(chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
The "move rapidly" senses are considered by some, especially in British English, to be an error due to confusion with "career".
• (tilt): heel
careen (plural careens)
(nautical) The position of a ship laid on one side.
• Cerean, carene, crenae, enrace, recane
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*reen", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Careened; p. pr. & vb. n. Careening.] Etym: [OF. cariner, F. caréner, fr. OF. carène, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina.] (Naut.)
Definition: To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
Ca*reen" (, v. i.
Definition: To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.