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
So we made fast the braces, and we rested, letting the wind and steersman work the ship.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
At the suggestion of the steersmen, it was at once decided to make no landing that night but to take advantage of the easy going, as the cold wind would soon sweep the fog away.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
And so it is, a chart upon which the steersmen of so vast and so responsible an enterprise safely pick their course upon a seemingly unending journey.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
The steersmen for the round trip received about eighty dollars and their board, and the river-men forty to fifty dollars.
From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Emerson Hough
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
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