steerer

Example Sentences

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A drummer helps keeps the pace and a steerer keeps the boat on course.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

Adorned with dragon heads and tails, large boats typically hold 20 people — 18 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer, who sets the rhythm for the strokes, like a coxswain.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

There’s also a drummer and steerer on board.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020

Consider Carol Lee Lindner, a Haverford, Pa., housewife, who says her life changed several years ago, when she discovered dragon-boat racing--competition among colorful boats, each with 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steerer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, with lateral movement in first and second machines, it is difficult for the steerer to know to exactness when his rudder is ‘off.’

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.