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单词 steerman
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steermann.

/ˈstɪəmən/
Forms: Old English–Middle English stéorman, Middle English steorman, Middle English ster man, stereman, 1500s Scottish steirman, 1600s steereman, 1600s– steerman.
Etymology: < steer n.2 + man n.1 Compare Dutch stuurman, Middle Low German stûreman, Middle High German stiurman (modern German steuermann), Old Norse stýrimað-r, (Swedish styrman, Danish styrmand). The Germanic word was adopted in Old French as esturman, estrumant.
Now rare.
A steersman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 560 Hera ðone steorman ac na swa-ðeah ærðan ðe he becume gesundful to þære hyðe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14193 And nom alle þa scipen..and þa steor-men alle to þan scipen neodde.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 245 Bathe schip maistir and the ster-man also In the holl but baid he gert thaim go.
1586 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 79 The foirsaidis personis furnissand steirmen thairto thameselffis.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. dv My Stear-man found the Ebb & Flood all along the Coast of America.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 287 Safe through the level seas we sweep our way; The steer-man governs, and the ships obey.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 193 Suppose the steerman's eye to have wandered.
figurative.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 43 Help, God, in this nede! As thou art stereman good, And best, as I rede.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 5 Their Starre the Bible, Steeres man th' Holy-Ghost.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 206 No sooner was old Abbas by bold death struck from the helme of Persia; and young Soffy his Grand-sonne made the royall Stear-man, but [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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