† steersmaten.
Obsolete. 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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a1575 G. Gascoigne Posies (1907) 356 Aloofe, aloofe, then cried the Maister out, The Stearesmate strives to sende us from the shore.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1045 What Pilot so expert but needs must wreck Embarqu'd with such a Stears-mate at the Helm? View more context for this quotation
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