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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Jul-11 - 05:44 PM
Thread Name: BS:threat to English language from Americanisms
Subject: RE: BS: the threat to the english language from
Careen. Add: 4 b. to lean over, to tilt.
1883 G. Meredith (Eng. poet), Now his huge bulk o'er Africa careened.
1895, Conrad, The big office desk, with one of its legs broken, careened over like the hull of a stranded ship.
1920, C. H. Stagg, A hundred times their throats choked as the car careened on a bank.
1938, British Birds XXXI, The bird was careening from side to side as though there were waves.
These added to Oxford English Dictionary in 1987, Supplement.