Crossword clues for steerage
steerage
- See great changes in government
- Always goes in coach – it offers cheapest fares
- Part of ship with lowest fares
- Unusually eager set in economy class
- Cheapest ship accommodations
- Cheap way to travel
- "Titanic" passenger class
- Some ship accommodations
- Liner's cheapest section
- Immigrants' accommodation
- Cheap tickets on the Titanic
- Cheap ride section
- Third-class ancestor
- Ship class of old
- Poor passenger's passage
- Passage of immigrant days
- One way to cross the Atlantic
- No-frills steamship option
- Lowest class
- Low cost passage
- It's not first class
- Immigrants' quarters
- Immigrants' accommodations
- Cheapest ocean-crossing accommodations
- Cheapest cruise option
- Cheapest accommodations
- Cheapest accommodation in old passenger ships
- Cheap ship section
- ''Titanic'' passenger class
- Cheap accommodations for seafarers
- Cheapest accommodations on old passenger ships
- Not exactly first cabin
- Cheap ship accommodations
- Cheapest traveling option
- The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
- The act of steering a ship
- Lowest-fare quarters on liners
- Liner's cheapest quarters
- Area for seafarers paying lowest fares
- Cheapest sea fare
- Part of a passenger ship
- Third class on the Titanic
- Cheapest accommodations on a ship
- Least expensive quarters at sea
- "Bargain basement" on a cruise
- Ship section
- Immigrant's way to get there
- Cheapest ship passage, once
- Steamship section
- One way to travel
- Area on a liner
- Guide occasionally wangles cheapest class
- Cheapest part of ship
- Cheapest tickets were here in the main
- Cheapest way to travel is always poetically in coach
- Cheapest part of a ship once
- Cattle are getting on part of ship
- Where passengers accommodated cheaply in back of cars, fury among drivers?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steerage \Steer"age\ (st[=e]r"[asl]j; 48), n.
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The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth.
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(Naut.)
The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
The hinder part of a vessel; the stern. [R.]
--Swift.Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
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Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
He that hath the steerage of my course.
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That by which a course is directed. [R.]
Here he hung on high, The steerage of his wings.
--Dryden.Steerage passenger, a passenger who takes passage in the steerage of a vessel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "steering apparatus of a ship;" mid-15c., "action of steering," from steer (v.) + -age. Meaning "part of a ship in front of the chief cabin" is from 1610s; originally in the rear of the ship where the steering apparatus was, it retained the name after the introduction of the deck wheel in early 18c.; hence meaning "section of a ship with the cheapest accommodations," first recorded 1804, later found in the front part of a ship.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of steering. 2 (context countable English) The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
WordNet
n. the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
the act of steering a ship [syn: steering]
Wikipedia
Steerage is the lower deck of a ship, where the cargo was stored above the closed hold. During the early 1900s many immigrants were too poor to travel on the upper decks, with wealthy passengers, so they were stuffed in converted cargo spaces which provided the lowest cost and lowest class of travel. The living conditions on the steerage deck were often horrible, with no bathroom facilities besides pots and pans. These horrible conditions caused many deaths due to unsanitary and cramped quarters. Gradual improvements to steerage class after the arrival of ocean liners led to its replacement by Third Class cabins.
Steerage is the act of steering a ship.
Steerage may refer to:
- Steerage (ship), the act of steering of ship and its construction.
- Steerage (deck), the deck of ship that accommodate passengers.
- The Steerage, an Alfred Stieglitz photograph
Usage examples of "steerage".
And in steerage, his fingers wandering across the keyboard of the battered theremin, no one noticed that the man they called the Minstrel had lit his cigarette without a match.
Below that was steerage, which was for migrating thetes, and for sky-girls, prostitutes of the air.
Where Bart had been born into the best quarters of The Home, son of a zerker Pack Leader, Dyfid had been born to a field hand in steerage, and he took food very seriously.
The USS Billfish cruised slowly northeast at four knots, bare steerage way, at a depth of 658 feet.
Instead of being popped into a lightless steerage cabin far below the deck of a sinking ocean liner or into the path of a superheated pyroclastic cloud rushing down the slope of an erupting volcano at almost the speed of sound, he had been eased into a slowly evolving Event.
I closed in to the cliffs, the engine ticking over just fast enough to give me steerage away.
As was customary aboard a whaleship, the food served in the forecastle (where the blacks lived) had been a grade below the miserable fare that had been served to the boatsteerers and young Nantucketers in steerage.
Sharpe thought of Malachi Braithwaite and was grateful that the secretary was mewed up in the steerage where he could not add to his suspicions of Sharpe and Lady Grace.
Assuming we don't lose the steerage engines, some minor corrections as we approach Alpha Cygni might be possible.
At 9,300 tons it was not a small vessel and the Bo'sun had had engine revolutions reduced until the ship had barely steerage way on, but still she was in trouble and the causes for this lay neither in the size of the ship, nor the size of the seas, for normally the San Andreas could have ridden out the storm without much difficulty.
The courtroom looked like the steerage class of an old banana boat.
He left behind an engineering problem Nikko had given him: how to channel a final burn through the steerage engines, now that their throats had been dissolved by the encroaching Chenzeme tissue?
The social and technological dynamics meant what was, would be, foreseeably, for fifty, a hundred years, and its planning was always well in advance, a simple steerage of the world at large, atevi and human, toward matching technological bases, toward goals decades away.
Besides the captain-a disreputable old wreck who reeked of tobacco-thc Sally Ann had a single hand, an elderly black freedman who was dealing alone with the steerage of our craft, by means of a large pole.
On the courser's farside, steerage jets that had not existed a moment before were blazing now in sudden, asynchronous fury, a lateral line of fire driving the vessel sideways toward Null Boundary.