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 called, and a sailor threw a line from above, and another hurried down the ladder to make it fast to the launch.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
While the boats were moving, the decks in the rear were devoted wholly to the use of the 117 steersmen, who required all the space as they occasionally shifted the position of their giant sweeps.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
After this one of the steersmen chose another man; and so on, till the crews of all the boats were completed.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
As darkness deepened the three sloops set out westward under shortened canvas, keeping so close that the steersmen hailed each other frequently through the night.
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
Cora was as adept at the wheel of the Pet as she was at that of the Whirlwind, and many admiring comments were made by other steersmen in the Cove, though Cora knew it not.
From The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea by Margaret Penrose
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