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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxvii. 40 They..lowsed the rudder bondes [Gk. τὰς ζευκτηρίας τῶν πηδαλίων, L. iuncturas gubernaculorum] and hoysed vppe the mayne sayle to the wynde.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xciii. 167/1 So that our Ruther-staffe [Du. die lay van 't roer] brake, and two more..broke likewise..on being put into it.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 10 The force of seas hath broke the Rudder-band.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 235 Rother-nails..are principally to fasten Rother Irons to Ships, and require a full Head.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Sea-terms Boite du gouvernail, the rudder-case, or the box placed above the rudder-head,..through which the tiller passes.

1787 D. Bushnell Let. Oct. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1799) 4 310 He..struck, as he supposes, a bar of iron, which passes from the rudder hinge, and is spiked under the ship's quarter.

1822 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 3 32 A length [of cable] must first be cut off..sufficiently long, that, when doubled and middled, it may reach from the upper part of the rudder-case to the heel of the stern-post.

1828 W. P. Cumby Let. 20 Mar. in Notes & Queries (1884) 5 Apr. 262 Captain Cooke joined us in partaking of some cold meat, &c., on the Rudder head.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. x. 117 He makes his appearance at the rudder-chains.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 67 Rudder-pendants, which secure the rudder to the vessel.

1884 Marine Engineer Sept. 156/1 Said elongation at the rudder hinge being swivel jointed to the main shaft.

1918 W. G. McMinnies Pract. Flying 234 Rudder post, the upright member to which the rudder is hinged.

1966 D. Stinton Anat. Aeroplane viii. 139 If hinge-moments are too high to be handled efficiently, artificial forces may be transmitted through the stick and rudder-pedals by an artificial feel-system.

2005 Pilot Oct. 22/2 I found enough room to move the rudder pedals without inadvertently operating the brakes.