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
Not for his passenger's sake, but to save his ship from the peril of the storm, the master shouted at once to the steersman to head westward toward the light.
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
The canoe-men are of two descriptions, foremen and steersmen, and middlemen.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie
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
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
There were four men on the line ashore, and the bow and steersmen standing up in the canoe fending her off the rocks and shallows.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
