yaws

yaws

noun

{bc}a contagious tropical disease especially of children caused by a spirochete ({it}Treponema pertenue{/it}) closely resembling the causative agent of syphilis and marked by infectious ulcerative skin lesions with later bone involvement

yaw

verb

{bc}to deviate erratically from a course (as when struck by a heavy sea)

yaw

noun

{bc}the action of yawing