steersman
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Origin of steersman
First recorded before 1000; Middle English steresman, Old English stēoresmann, equivalent to stēor “steering, helm” ( see steer 1) + -es 's 1 + man man
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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
The long ship lay steady on the waves and went gallantly, but the steersman at the long steering-sweep in the stern looked into the rain that beat the sea and saw nothing but the rain.
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
If the three men upon the high seventh floor of the institution are its steersmen, this man, who has his office at the rear of its broad mezzanine balcony, is at least its chief engineer.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
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
But this song came from neither of the weatherworn steersmen, nor from the stolid members of their half-breed crew.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
He cast a look ahead, and saw that his boat was approaching, at swift speed, a knot of other boats, the steersmen of which were too confused to know what to do.
From Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard R. Garis
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