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steerage en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English steer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English steerage From steer + -age.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The art of steering.
  2. (countable) The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
    • “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.” 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
    • 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 1896, Henry Lawson, For`ard:
    • Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast. 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
  3. (countable) The effect of the helm on a ship.

Forms

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steerages Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

steerageway

Translations (8)

hu fedélköz (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · mi tīreti (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · de Zwischendeck (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · mi tiareti (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · bg трета палуба (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · he סִפּוּן בֵּּינַיִם (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · he בֵּינַת סִפּוּנִים (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship) · es antecámara (cheapest class of accommodation in a ship)