steersman

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

But when Luiz, the steersman in Roosevelt’s canoe, took his ax and chopped into the hollow of the tree, Roosevelt could see a waxy formation.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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 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

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

There was a heavy mist and rain, also a fresh breeze, so the steersmen could not well see what way they were going.

From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

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