zig, zigzag, veer, sheer, cut, break, yaw.

Then from the zig of the fire escape above, before it twisted down into the zag of hers, there came to Marylin, through the medley of city silences and the tears in her heart, this melody, on a jew's- harp: If it had any key at all, it was in the mood of Chopin's Nocturne in D flat major. - "The Vertical City", Fannie Hurst.

It was large beams of the trunk of the tree, with platted thin pieces of the boughs across them, forming a fantastic zig- zag joice of wood ceiling. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson.

" Once in the zig- zag path the odds will be more evenly balanced," said Ellerey. - "Princess Maritza", Percy Brebner.