Also 7 sternsman. [f. STERN sb.3 + MAN. Cf. STEERMAN, STEERSMAN.]

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  † 1.  A steersman, pilot; cf. STERN sb.3 1. Obs.

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1582.  Batman, Barth. De P. R., XI. xii. 163 b. The sternman doubteth, and cannot know whetherward he shall stir the ship a right.

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1608.  Willet, Hexapla Exod., 50. God as the sternesman that directeth and guideth all.

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1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, III. xxi. 217. The rash Sterneman split her dangerously against a hidden Rocke.

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1627.  W. Sclater, Exp. 2 Thess. (1629), 147. Before hee hath described the Sternsman, a man of sinne.

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  2.  A man posted in the stern of a boat.

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1894.  Outing, XXIV. 189/2. The sternman sits on the gunwale of the extreme end of the craft.

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