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 watched for it on each rise of the great waves, and saw it as Ged saw it again, but shouted back that it was only the setting sun.
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
The two white men themselves, and their two steersmen, could not find shelter in the same way, being bound to stand erect in order to keep the rafts in midstream.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
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
The first day was a trial to the patience of the steersmen.
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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
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