steersman
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The narrator is portrayed as the junior steersman.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Once, it was a happy little Greek term for a steersman, adapted in the 1940s by scientists describing the interaction between humans and machines: cybernetics.
From BBC ● May 19, 2017
It looks like Marvel’s found their new franchise steersman.
From Time ● Mar. 23, 2015
Adam Bielamowicz, a tenor, was a bright steersman.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2013
The steersman leaning on his long sweep turned his head and called, “Sir! is this true land or a witchery?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
All rigging whole and all hands well, we rested, letting the wind and steersmen work the ships, for five days; on the fifth we made the delta.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
If the three men upon the high seventh floor of the institution are its steersmen, this man, who has his office at the rear of its broad mezzanine balcony, is at least its chief engineer.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
It enables lighthouses continually to spell their names, so that receivers aboard ship may give the steersmen their bearings even in storm and fog.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles
While the two steersmen lifted their own hats and grunted with the only show of animation that had lit their faces, the ceremony of inspection was over and the long voyage was officially begun.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
Some of these tumble the big ship about, till the steersmen feel her going almost regardless of the rudder.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
