steersman

How to use steersman in a sentence

• Then he let a steaming arch out of the hose pipe, that vaulted the distance and soaked the steersman, who howled and lay down.

  The Belted Seas | Arthur Colton

• Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both men on watch and steersman missing.

  Dracula | Bram Stoker

• The bowman hitteth the mark, as the steersman reacheth land, by diversity of aim.

  Education: How Old The New | James J. Walsh

• With a shriek of command to the steersman, and a plunge of his paddle, the bowman wrenches the canoe out of its course.

  The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book | Various

• The young steersman could not guess that the shadow of a long sorrow was even then stretching across the path ahead.

  Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine