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Steersman

Steersman meaning

One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.

Example sentences (2)

Come sundown between May and October, he boards a boat along with an assistant, a steersman and about 10 cormorants leashed at the neck and body.

The mechanism – hydraulics controlled by a steersman watching a spirit level – worked in model form and in a trial version built in his garden in Denmark Hill, London.