The shot he fired missed the wheelsman's head by inches; the second shot splintered a spoke; the third caught the wheelsman in the left shoulder.
The wheelsman held the centre of the course between the North pack and the sand spits.
The Russian wheelsman peered over the barricade and took his orders from the leader; the ship ported and starboarded, then steadied with clumsy steering.
The mate bobbed his head and climbed the weather poop steps as Marr appeared at the side of the wheelsman and stared over the canvas rail.
I was again alone on the upper deck, except for the wheelsman in the pilot house, yet in that broad daylight I hesitated to act on my first impulse.
Our course ran zig-zag from shore to shore in an endeavor to follow the main channel, and progress was slow, the wheelsman evidently not being well acquainted with the stream.
Nickerson relaxed his work-bill for once, and the crew, except the wheelsman and look-out, took shelter from the rain and discussed the future.
The windows to protect the wheelsman had been dropped, as the snow had gathered on the glass; and at intervals, as he glanced back, he could see old Burr's face as he switched on a dim light to look at the compass.
As Alan ascended and went forward to his duty, the increase in the severity of the gale was very evident; the thermometer, the wheelsman said, had dropped below zero.
There used to be a wheelsman on the Martha Corvet years ago who looked like him; or looked like what this fellow may have looked like once.
Some skipper and wheelsman set them to rhyme years ago, and the lake men teach the rhymes to their children so that they'll never go wrong with a ship.
He threw Alan off for an instant and started to flee back toward the ferry; and now Alan let him go, only following a few steps to make sure that the wheelsman returned to Number 25.
The wheelsman struggled; he seemed suddenly terrified with the terror which, instead of weakening, supplied infuriated strength.
I told you this man may have been a wheelsman on the Corvet; I don't know more about him than that; I don't even know that certainly.
They're crossing," thewheelsman said aloud, but more to himself than to Alan.
About midnight the wheelsman began showing signs of consciousness.
The wheelsman struck a savage blow at the boy as he threw the wheel around, and was in turn the object of attack from Tommy.
When the short battle ended the wheelsmanlay on the deck unconscious, his head rolling from side to side as the boat tossed about on the waves.
When, after many delightful trips about the Gulf of Alaska, the Boy Scouts all turned their faces homeward, the wheelsman was left in charge of the boat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wheelsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
