sternmann.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot
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1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. xii. 163 b The sternman doubteth, and cannot know whetherward he shall stir the ship a right.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 50 God as the sternesman that directeth and guideth all.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iii. xxi. 217 The rash Sterneman split her dangerously against a hidden Rocke.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 147 Before hee hath described the Sternsman, a man of sinne.
2. A man posted in the stern of a boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with duties in other specific areas
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1894 Outing 24 189/2 The sternman sits on the gun~wale of the extreme end of the craft.
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