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
So we made fast the braces, and we rested, letting the wind and steersman work the ship.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Then, quite casually, he faced the two steersmen.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)
Tossed and tormented, driven on from behind, and driven back from before, neither sailors nor steersmen avail to guide her.
From A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Loviot, Fanny
It is the tomb of Aahmes, the son of Abuna, the chief of the steersmen.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
