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noun

Steerage n.

The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. "He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth."

(Naut.)

(a)

The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.

(b)

The hinder part of a vessel; the stern. (R.)

(c)

Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

Direction; regulation; management; guidance. "He that hath the steerage of my course."

That by which a course is directed. (R.) "Here he hung on high, The steerage of his wings."

Steerage passenger, a passenger who takes passage in the steerage of a vessel.

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"Steerage" Quotes from Famous Books

... fitted out in the most complete manner for defence, at a very considerable expense, and are well provided with small arms. All mariners, recruiting parties, soldiers upon furlow, and all other steerage passengers who have been accustomed to the use of firearms, and who will engage to assist in defending themselves, will be accommodated with their passage to and from London upon satisfying the masters for their provisions, which in no instance shall exceed 10s. 6d. sterling." This was the year ...

— A Hundred Years by Post - A Jubilee Retrospect • J. Wilson Hyde

... laughed while I spoke in panting jerks, and the water dripped out of my clothes. After I had made it clear that I wanted to go with Carlos, and could pay for my passage, I was handed down into the steerage, where a tallow candle burnt in a thick, blue atmosphere. I was stripped and filled with some fiery liquid, and fell asleep. Old Rangsley was ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... from the Mediterranean have announced their intention of charging for steerage only five to ten dollars more to the Pacific Coast ports than to the Atlantic ports. It costs the immigrant from sixteen to twenty-five dollars to go west from Atlantic ports. It can hardly be doubted that a great many immigrants will ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... his latest day, When Death, just hovering, claim'd his prey, With Palinure's unalter'd mood Firm at his dangerous post he stood; Each call for needful rest repell'd, With dying hand the rudder held, Till in his fall with fateful sway The steerage of the realm gave way. Then—while on Britain's thousand plains One polluted church remains, Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around The bloody tocsin's maddening sound, But still upon the hallow'd day Convoke the swains to praise ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... in question he resolved to remain on deck until the weather should have assumed some more decided aspect. There was fortunately still a gentle breeze from about east-south-east fanning the convoy along at a speed of some two knots in the hour, just giving the ships steerage-way; and they were consequently able to keep out of each other's way, and thus avoid collision, always a great element of danger when a large number of craft happen to be sailing ...

— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

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