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Steerer  n.  One who steers; as, a boat steerer.






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"Steerer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bicycle unmodified. 2. The Safety bicycle, a modification of 1. 3. The Center-cycle. 4. The Tricycle, which includes five general types: (a.) Rear steerer of any sort. (b.) Coventry rotary. (c.) Front steerer of any sort (except e). (d.) Humber pattern. (e.) The Oarsman. 5. Double machines: sociables ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various

... had brought home a casual London acquaintance, he had suspected the existence of hidden motives on the part of the unknown. Spennie, he had told himself, was precisely the sort of youth to whom the professional bunko-steerer would attach himself with shouts of joy. Never, he had assured himself, had there been a softer proposition than his stepson since bunko-steering became ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse

... or much comprehension. The pieces that please best are those which, from Pope and Pope's adherents, procured him the name of "Namby-Pamby," the poems of short lines, by which he paid his court to all ages and characters, from Walpole the "steerer of the realm," to Miss Pulteney in the nursery. The numbers are smooth and sprightly, and the diction is seldom faulty. They are not loaded with much thought, yet, if they had been written by Addison, they would have had admirers: little ...
— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson

... to anchor in the three harbours of Ponape in those days. They came there for wood and water and fresh provisions, before they sailed to the cold, icy seas of the south. I was then a boat-steerer in an English ship—a good and lucky ship with a good captain. When we came to Ponape we found there six other whaleships, all anchored close together under the shelter of the two islets. All the captains were friends, and the few white men who lived ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke



Words linked to "Steerer" :   accomplice, slicker, seaman, coxswain, steer, jack, gob, confederate, decoy, deceiver, Jack-tar, roper, sea dog, shill, cox, steersman, mariner, old salt, cheater, beguiler, cheat



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