I remember, somewhere, sitting in a circle with Japanese fishermen, Kanaka boat-steerers from our own vessels, and a young Danish sailor fresh from cowboying in the Argentine and with a penchant for native customs and ceremonials.
There were six boat-steerers and five boat-pullers and the same logic held with them.
The boat-steerers were kept busy fixing up their harpoons and lances, getting the boats ready, coiling the lines in the tubs etc.
In teaching her I learned quite a deal myself, though I was applying the knowledge already acquired by sailing the Ghost and by watching the boat-steerers sail the small boats.
An angry lot of men, boat-pullers and steerers as well as hunters, swarmed over our side.
On board the schooner the boat-pullers andsteerers are the crew.
I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.
It seems that he has been seal-hunting regularly each season for a dozen years, and is accounted one of the two or three very best boat-steerers in both fleets.
The blubber as it comes on board is cut into smaller pieces by the boat-steerers and thrown into the 'tween-decks by the line managers, from which it is taken a day or two later, cut small and put into tanks.
McNally thereupon told all his writers, Bunco steerers and Turners that they must pack up their traps, and follow the Captain to the precinct to which he had been transferred.
Stirling stared aft to the deck house, out of which sleepy-eyed Kanakas and boat steerers were appearing, then stepped to one rail and studied the swinging sheer of the Pole Star.
The boat steerers were Frisco dock rats who had the run of the steerage--an elevated position to them.
The seamen and boat steerers swarmed over the whaler's rail and stretched themselves by a swift run upon the ice.
The Pole Star's foremast hands and the most of the harpooners and boatsteerers would have delighted the eyes of an ethnologist.
The Indians readily joined the whites in this new enterprise; and the most active among them soon became boat steerers and experienced whalemen, and were capable of conducting any part of the business.
The steerers are dressed as admirals, captains or midshipmen of the Royal Navy, and have a large bouquet of flowers; we need not further describe the well-known scene.
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.
Caint strike whale 'thout bein' crowded eout uv yer own propputty by a gang bunco steerers like this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steerers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
