steward
/ˈstu.ɚd/ verb C2- To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
He/she/it stewards · Past stewarded · Past participle stewarded · -ing form stewarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- steward
- He/she/it
- stewards
- Past
- stewarded
- Past participle
- stewarded
- -ing form
- stewarding
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“Apply to the steward on the first day of every month, and you will receive the same sum.”
It belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he’d say if he come ‘ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o’ times, but more especially when he has the drink.
“My name is Sawyer—hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her—and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he’s at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor shops——”
“Now,” said the steward, “what have you to tell me?”
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