steersmate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
steer + -s- + mate. See steer (“a rudder”).
Noun[edit]
steersmate (plural steersmates)
- (obsolete) One who steers; a steersman; a helmsperson.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
- What pilot so expert but needs must wreck ,
Embark'd with such a steersmate at the helm ?
References[edit]
- “steersmate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.