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

Luiz Correia was the steersman, Julio de Lima was the bowsman, and Antonio Pareci was the paddler.

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 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 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

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

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