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STEERER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steerer mean?
• STEERER (noun)
The noun STEERER has 2 senses:
1. the person who steers a ship
2. a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
Familiarity information: STEERER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The person who steers a ship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("steerer" is a kind of...):
gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steerer"):
cox; coxswain (the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew)
Derivation:
steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
decoy; steerer
Hypernyms ("steerer" is a kind of...):
accomplice; confederate (a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan))
beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steerer"):
roper (a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game))
shill (a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others)
Context examples
Didn’t he kill his boat-steerer last year?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Three, a hunter, a boat-puller, and a boat-steerer, compose a boat’s crew.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
An angry lot of men, boat-pullers and steerers as well as hunters, swarmed over our side.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Once aboard, the two prisoners hoisted in the boat and under Wolf Larsen’s direction carried the wounded boat-steerer down into the forecastle.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In teaching her I learned quite a deal myself, though I was applying the knowledge already acquired by sailing the Ghost and by watching the boat-steerers sail the small boats.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It seems that he has been seal-hunting regularly each season for a dozen years, and is accounted one of the two or three very best boat-steerers in both fleets.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Louis, the boat-steerer, had already begged me for condensed milk and sugar.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His reasoning was justified, for the boat rushed at once into the wind and the hunter sprang aft to take the boat-steerer’s place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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