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

Haymakers Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once more the boat’s head is turned upstream, and for a long spell no further conversation is exchanged—only now and then a word relating to the management of the craft, as between rower and steerer.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne