Sentence example with the word 'steerer'

steerer

Definition n. the person who steers a ship

Last update: October 13, 2015


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And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.   [Please select]

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Ye see, this here Sagasta is a boonco steerer like Canada Bill, an' th' likes iv him.   [Please select]

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Th' diff'rence in furrin' policies is the diff'rence between a second-rate safe blower an' a first-class boonco steerer.'   [Please select]

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You and Frank can keep watch while Dick steers: he's a good steerer.   [Please select]

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For, when the gold-brick man produced his dull metal ingot, all Sanders' moral nerves stood endways, and he ran the confiding "bunco steerer" to the nearest station, charging him, to the astonishment of a sorely-puzzled policeman, with "I."   [Please select]

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With the united will of oarsmen and steerer the effort was successful; and ten seconds later the pinnace was safe inside the breakers, moving along under the impulse of two pairs of oars, that rose and fell as gently as if they were pulling her over the surface of some placid lake.   [Please select]

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