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 long ship lay steady on the waves and went gallantly, but the steersman at the long steering-sweep in the stern looked into the rain that beat the sea and saw nothing but the rain.
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
Above the termini of these steamer routes all travelling is done in keelless bateaux, propelled by paddlers and steered when coming through the rapids at both bow and stern by certificated bowmen and steersmen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
It is the tomb of Aahmes, the son of Abuna, the chief of the steersmen.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
The boats were drifting lazily under the banks, the native steersmen half sleeping at their posts, the white men stretched out, listless, sun-wearied, inert.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan
The first day was a trial to the patience of the steersmen.
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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