steerage
IPA: stˈɪrɪdʒ
noun
- (uncountable) The art of steering.
- (countable) The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
- (countable) The effect of the helm on a ship.
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Examples of "steerage" in Sentences
- Steerage is the act of steering a ship.
- Steerage refers to the lowest decks of a ship.
- She took on an 11 degree list and lost steerage.
- It only cost about five pounds to travel steerage.
- She also had less room for cargo and steerage passengers.
- But only because I was flying "steerage" -- economy class.
- There was also room for up to 800 steerage class passengers.
- The ability to change direction with altitude is called steerage.
- In another five minutes we had steerage from the filled sail, and
- Attempting to depart, the vessel's chain steerage gear became jammed.
- Remember, at this point the steerage passengers were still kept below.
- More water poured into the interior and flooded the cargo hold and steerage.
- Besides, there was an equally good bunk all the way across the width of the steerage from the Chinaman's.
- In another five minutes we had steerage from the filled sail, and Arnold Bentham was at the steering sweep.
- Number 1: “They are still rowdy in steerage sir, a bunch of Indians and Chinese think they deserve to be up here in the First Class cocktail lounge”
- "If she comes out of there," he said, "hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it's likely there'll be empty bunks in steerage and fo'c'sle."
- “If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”
- a few strokes, so as to give the boat what they called steerage way, that is, way through the water, so that holding the paddle in one position or the other would steer it.