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steerage

noun

Etymology

From steer + -age.

  1. inherited from stēor
  2. inherited from steere
  3. inherited from *stiurijaną✻
  4. inherited from *stiurijan✻
  5. inherited from stēoran
  6. inherited from steeren
  7. suffixed as steerage — “steer + age”

Definitions

  1. The art of steering.

  2. The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no…

    The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.

    • It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep, For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep
    • “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”

  3. The effect of the helm on a ship.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA