单词 | to steer a, one's course |
释义 | > as lemmasto steer a, one's course e. to steer a, one's course: (a) literal of a helmsman or a navigator, to guide a vessel along a certain course; also of the vessel (cf. 2d); (b) transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > steering > steer [verb (intransitive)] steerc897 stretchc1275 steer1340 stern14.. to steer a, one's course1602 helm1607 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. G2 He beares an vnturnd sayle with euery winde: Blowe East, blowe West, he stirs his course alike. 1644 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 325 Those particulars that first induced me to steere this course. 1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 193 If they have not Christ Jesus for their Pilot to steere their course for them, they must certainly sinke. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 248 Intending to take ship at Alexandria, and steer the course for Italy. 1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 49 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland The Magnet..which guides him to steer his Course through these vast Expansions of Water. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. i. 302 It blew from the S.W, and consequently was directly opposed to the course we wanted to steer. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 174 Let us learn to steer the middle course. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. ii. 59 Deserts where the Arabs alone know how to steer their course. 1822 W. Hazlitt Men & Manners (1869) 2nd Ser. v. 113 You must steer a middle course. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Steer her course, going with the wind fair enough to lay her course. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxii. 358 To see that the boat was steering her right course. < as lemmas |
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