How To Use steersman In A Sentence
- Each team comprises 18 paddlers, one drummer, one steersman (also called a sweep) and one flag-catcher.
- And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
- ‘Aye, captain! ‘came the reply from the burly steersman already standing between the tillers of the huge steering oars.’
- While I was thinking about the legend and looking at the rocks, the steersman suddenly told me to hang onto my life-jacket tightly and to lie down on the raft.
- If the steersman pushed the helm away from him, the rudder-blade would turn its inner side forward and the ship would swung to port.
- A story is told about Pantai Norasingh, a steersman of the royal barge, who accidentally ran aground while taking Sanphet on an inspection tour of the river.
- Before the whipstaff, the steersman was below decks, guiding the tiller without being able to see the sails, responding to shouted commands from above. Escape From Roksamur
- In effect, it's a guiding function to the steersman.
- Away they went, vahine, Ah Choon, and steersman; and I swear I saw The Heathen
- The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white;
