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Definition of Steerers

1. steerer [n] - See also: steerer

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Steerers

steeples steeply steepness steepnesses steeps steepup steepy steer steerable steerage

steerages steerageway steerageways steered steerer steerers (current term) steeries steering steerings steering committee

steering gear steering linkage steering mechanism steering system steering wheel steers steersman steersmen steery steer roping

Literary usage of Steerers

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1. Life and Adventure in the South Pacific by Jones (1861)
"Boat-steerers.—Foremast Hands.—Jo Bob. —Sailor's Fare.—The Cask of Pies. ... The boat-steerers are good-natured boys, always, ready in the discharge of ..."

2. Life and Adventure in the South Pacific by Jones (1861)
"Boat-steerers.—Foremast Hands.—Jo Bob. —Sailor's Fare.—The Cask of Pies. ... The boat-steerers are good-natured boys, always ready in the discharge of their ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Rear-steerers were improved by making both front wheels drivers and allowing for the ... The clutch is also employed on some front-steerers ; and, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the District of by Arthur MacArthur, Supreme Court, District of Columbia Supreme Court, Franklin Hubbell Mackey, District of Columbia (1884)
"Two of these are known as " steerers," one is known as the " Kentucky drover," ... The " steerers " frequent the Capitol, or some other public building or ..."

5. Reflections of a Lawyer by Morris Salem (1911)
"Divorce and breach-of-promise lawyers have steerers that belong to many ... Even those lawyers that have no regular steerers must often part with a goodly ..."

6. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"SHARPERS, CONFIDENCE-MEN AND BUNCO-steerers — WIDE OPEN TRAPS —TRICKS OP ... The leading confidence- men and bunco-steerers are an industrious set. ..."

7. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... and even famous L erals of America and Europe, have thus become easy prey sharpers, and have been roundly fleeced by confidence-men ; bunco-steerers. ..."

8. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"Single-driving rear-steerers were at this time very common, and, ... Rear-steerers were improved by making both front wheels drivers and allowing for the ..."

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