steerer
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A drummer helps keeps the pace and a steerer keeps the boat on course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Adorned with dragon heads and tails, large boats typically hold 20 people — 18 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer, who sets the rhythm for the strokes, like a coxswain.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
There’s also a drummer and steerer on board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
He is a kind of personification of what every boy's mother wants him to be when he grows up: fairminded, respected, a good mixer, and an unswerving steerer down the middle of the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
The steerer of the boat was a cool hand, and he swung the boat off with a powerful stroke just as the whale came up and tried to smash her with his flukes.
From Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 by Various
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