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Steer   /stɪr/   Listen
verb
Steer  v. t.  To castrate; said of male calves.



Steer  v. t.  (past & past part. steered; pres. part. steering)  To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; applied especially to a vessel in the water. "That with a staff his feeble steps did steer."



Steer  v. i.  
1.
To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course. "No helmsman steers."
2.
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily. "Where the wind Veers oft, as oft (a ship) so steers, and shifts her sail."
3.
To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.



noun
Steer  n.  A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.



Steer  n.  (Written also stere)  A rudder or helm. (Obs.)



Steer  n.  A helmsman; a pilot. (Obs.)






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"Steer" Quotes from Famous Books



... have devised, or they Who wage mixed warfare and, adepts in art, Upon the foe fall headlong: all such lore Phocian Harpalicus gave him, Hermes' son: Whom no man might behold while yet far off And wait his armed onset undismayed: A brow so truculent roofed so stern a face. To launch, and steer in safety round the goal, Chariot and steed, and damage ne'er a wheel, This the lad learned of fond Amphitryon's self. Many a fair prize from listed warriors he Had won on Argive racegrounds; yet the car Whereon ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus

... balloonist. "It's a trick I once played on a fellow who did me an injury. Here, you steer for a minute until I get the thing ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton

... said if you will help me. You say, sometimes, grandfather, that you can pull a good stroke with the oar still: and I can steer as well as our master himself: and the fiord never was stiller than it is to-day. Think what it would be to bring home Rolf, or some good news of him. We would have a race up to the seater afterwards to see who could be the first to ...
— Feats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow" • Harriet Martineau

... were to take charge of the boats, steer them ashore, and row them to the beach when they were finally cast off by the towing pinnaces. Each boat was in charge of a young midshipman, many of whom have come straight from Dartmouth after a couple of terms and ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... world much gold richly adorning his sword, two hundred rubies, many hundred imperial coins, three hundred golden bees, the bones and horse-shoes of his horse interred with him, accord- ing to the barbarous magnificence of those days in their sepulchral obsequies. Although, if we steer by the conjecture of many a Septuagint expression, some trace thereof may be found even with the ancient Hebrews, not only from the sepulchral treasure of David, but the circumcision knives which Joshua ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne


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