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
Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
If the three men upon the high seventh floor of the institution are its steersmen, this man, who has his office at the rear of its broad mezzanine balcony, is at least its chief engineer.
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
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
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
