steerer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that steers.
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Informal. a confederate who directs potential customers to a gambling game, brothel, drug seller, etc.
Etymology
Origin of steerer
Example Sentences
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A drummer helps keeps the pace and a steerer keeps the boat on course.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
Adorned with dragon heads and tails, large boats typically hold 20 people — 18 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer, who sets the rhythm for the strokes, like a coxswain.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
There’s also a drummer and steerer on board.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020
Haymakers Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they replied, ‘Our little steerer here stays and rows not.’
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius
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