Long, long ago, when I was boat-steerer on the Prudence Hopkins, a New Bedford ship.
For he at the oars is Jack Wingate, the steerer Captain Ryecroft.
When we struck the sealing-grounds he turned out to be next to the best boat-steerer aboard.
It was a glorious morning, but our boat-steerer shook his head ominously as he glanced at the rising sun and prophetically muttered: "Red sun in the morning, sailor take warning.
A pad piziness," the boat-steerer reiterated, dolorously, in the silence which followed.
German boat-steerer added, his rough voice lifting across the water like a fog-horn.
At the moment that it was harpooned, it struck the side of the boat a violent blow with its tail, the shock of which threw the boat-steerer to some distance into the water.
Well, previous to the steerer and the guy coming to the carriage, there would be a satchel put there, a little red satchel.
By some strange mistake, and despite all warnings, the Steerer ran into the Detective and the Guy; but even this difficulty was overcome, for a few words from the Detective put it all right, and the Steerer went off without being arrested.
In the evidence of the men who practise the confidence trick, the curious fact came out that the police expressly abandoned strangers to the tender mercies of the Bunco Steerer and Green Goods dealer.
Again, with lateral movement in first and second machines, it is difficult for the steerer to know to exactness when his rudder is 'off.
It enables the steerer to keep his eyes on his stern-post, and to guide his course thereby in confidence, without repeated twists round to see if any loafing duffer is going to smash his timbers.
The steerers are chosen in the same order, and the best steerer (who is also to have the honour of steering the eight of the school) always steers the ten.
The steerer should not be repeatedly looking round, as regards his course.
And they replied, 'Our little steerer here stays and rows not.
From the tale we see that the steerer led the song of the rowers, and if the leader ceased, all that side of the boat ceased also.
All of a sudden our boat-steerer says, "'I know him!
We had gone about half the distance, when the boat-steerer said, "'There goes flukes.
The steerer of the boat was a cool hand, and he swung the boat off with a powerful stroke just as the whale came up and tried to smash her with his flukes.
I have no objection to the dog staying," replied Mr. Steerer kindly, "providing he does not bark and annoy my tenant on the second floor.
Mrs. Steiner rang the bell of the first floor apartments, and Mr. Steerer opened the door and invited them in.
On a corner lounged a keen-eyed steerer for a gambling-house.
The steerer looked pained, and investigated a white speck on his left forefinger nail.
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 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.
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 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.
Thus saith the Banda lay: 'The steerer of the prow-steed Let lie at Staur the heads of fallen warriors, Thereafter joy of battle inflamed the Earl.
A convulsive and terrible heave of its ponderous tail, which succeeded the wound, struck the boat at the stern, and by its reaction projected the boat-steerer overboard.
Besides the steerer each toboggan was to carry another person for ballast.
I was then a boat-steerer in an English ship--a good and lucky ship with a good captain.
Half a dozen strokes sent the boat to within striking distance and the boat-header called to his boat-steerer to 'Stand up.
The captain still bent on his "punkins," took a boat-steerer and two other hands to put the coveted vegetables into bags and carry them down to the boats.
He was the boat-steerer on board the Florentia one voyage, and steered in the pulling race for whaleboats at the regatta on anniversary day, which we won the year before last in Sydney harbour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steerer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
