steer
/stɪɹ/ verb B2- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). · The boat steered towards the iceberg.· I steered homeward.
- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). · I find it very difficult to steer a skateboard.· When planning the boat trip, we had completely forgotten that we needed somebody to steer.
- To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm. · The boat steers easily.
- To direct a group of animals.
- To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
- To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- To direct a conversation.
- To direct or send an object into a specific place
He/she/it steers · Past steered · Past participle steered · -ing form steering
Verb forms
- Base form
- steer
- He/she/it
- steers
- Past
- steered
- Past participle
- steered
- -ing form
- steering
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However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,
All night across the dark we steer:
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