And then Harry, once the boatsteerer and now the beachcomber, fired his muskets into the thick, surging mass of humanity on the little 'islet, and every shot told.
His had been a strange and chequered career, and in his wanderings as a trader and as a boatsteerer in a Hobart Town whaler, he had traversed every league of the wide Pacific.
Peter, the Mani Kanaka, took his discharge here, as he had no desire to go to America, and had been offered a chance as boatsteerer in a Sydney whaler.
Fortitude's waist-boat, and Russell's boatsteerer jumped up and down in the excitement of the moment.
An officer or a boatsteerer may, in case of emergency, be created at sea, by promotion; but the cooper is not so easily replaced.
The vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Johnson was filled by the promotion of Bunker to be third mate; and the next matter for consideration was the selection of a boatsteerer for the larboard boat.
The officer made no reply; and could the young boatsteerer have seen the dark, forbidding scowl upon his face, he would never have addressed him at such an unpropitious moment.
They carried a rude wooden shell, and then with bared heads the captain and boatsteererentered the house where she lay.
For about half a mile they walked behind the captain and his boatsteerer and the woman Varua without uttering a word.
The subsequent and inevitable parting made Samoa an undesirable place of residence for Allan, who shipped as boatsteerer in the NIGER of New Bedford.
Frewen, the missing officer, was as good a whaleman as ever drove an iron or gripped the haft of a steer-oar, and his half-caste boatsteerer Randall Cheyne was the best on the ship.
And I say that my boatsteerer is not fit for duty.
When I was a boatsteerersome years ago on a New Bedford whaler--the Aaron Burr--we had serious trouble with about thirty Portuguese negroes we picked up off the coast of Brazil.
They pulled up alongside, and the mate's boatsteerer stepped out on to the body of Leviathan and pulled out the whift pole, which was firmly embedded in the blubber.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatsteerer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
