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 searchlight shone directly at them for seconds that felt like minutes, but then it swung away and the engine noise changed as the steersman opened the throttle and moved off along the flood.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
The first day was a trial to the patience of the steersmen.
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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 Fanny Loviot
The boats were drifting lazily under the banks, the native steersmen half sleeping at their posts, the white men stretched out, listless, sun-wearied, inert.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan
But when I tried to arrange for my old steersmen to pilot me down the river again, I found that energetic Calgary had beaten me to it.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
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