How To Use Steersman In A Sentence
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Each team comprises 18 paddlers, one drummer, one steersman (also called a sweep) and one flag-catcher.
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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
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‘Aye, captain! ‘came the reply from the burly steersman already standing between the tillers of the huge steering oars.’
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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In effect, it's a guiding function to the steersman.
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Away they went, vahine, Ah Choon, and steersman; and I swear I saw
The Heathen
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The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white;
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Away they went -- vahine, Ah Choon, and steersman; and I swear I saw Ah Choon grin at me with philosophic resignation as he cleared the rail and went under.
THE HEATHEN
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The machine is made up of ten bicycles that have been chopped up and welded together with five riders on each side and one seat in front for the steersman.
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The boat is propelled by three standing rowers and - unlike Carpaccio's fisolieri - an additional steersman.
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Hebden is a steersman, not a dictator, even though it's his hand that places and defines every aspect of this music.
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According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The coyote is the kybernetes, the steersman, the gardener.
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After we were pulled aboard, the steersman headed back toward the docks.
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At the rear of this hull, cornerwise from Mate, the steersman Hiro would stand.
Hawaii
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The steersman's cockpit was set at the stern, just fore of the twin metal smokestacks with ornate tops.
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Away they went, vahine, Ah Choon, and steersman; and I swear I saw Ah Choon grin at me with philosophic resignation as he cleared the rail and went under.
THE HEATHEN
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Torres gave the order to the steersman, who sighted his course across the gun deck from under a raised trunk on the deck above.
INCA GOLD
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The higher he rose, the more opposition and danger he faced: but it was his fate, he was the steersman of Greece.
COUP D'ETAT
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Hey, would you fancy being steersman in the carnival procession?
TICKLED PINK
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Hard down with your helm!" the captain commanded the steersman, all the life gone out of his voice.
The Lost Poacher
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Steersman is assigned by the organizer special preference of any particular steersman will not be entertained.
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Such was our guide, the captain, steersman, and ballaster of our vessel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
