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STEERER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
Synonyms:
decoy; steerer
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The person who steers a ship
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
Context examples:
The first struck fifty feet to windward of the boat, the second alongside; and at the third the boat-steerer let loose his steering-oar and crumpled up in the bottom of the boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
One diversion of his, when we were in the midst of the herd and the sea was too rough to lower the boats, was to lower with two boat-pullers and a steerer and go out himself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Half-a-dozen sailors swarmed to the crosstrees after him, where they clustered and waited while two of their number, Oofty-Oofty and Black (who was Latimer’s boat-steerer), continued up the thin steel stays, lifting their bodies higher and higher by means of their arms.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Whatever a sailor purchases is taken from his subsequent earnings on the sealing grounds; for, as it is with the hunters so it is with the boat-pullers and steerers—in the place of wages they receive a lay, a rate of so much per skin for every skin captured in their particular boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The hunter and boat-puller were both lying awkwardly in the bottom, but the boat-steerer lay across the gunwale, half in and half out, his arms trailing in the water and his head rolling from side to side.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order—to use Leach’s homely phrase.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
