noun
definition
The art of steering.
definition
The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
definition
The effect of the helm on a ship.
Examples of steerage in a Sentence
Whether they traveled first-class or crossed the Atlantic in steerage, all new immigrants to the Port of New York were required to go through Customs at Ellis Island.
Well, I was compelled to take a steerage passage, good enough for me.
It was only the third class or "steerage" passengers who were ferried to Ellis Island for health and legal interviews.
In many of these crops, good weed control could be achieved using steerage hoes without the need for hand labor.
My recollection of meeting these boats was that they where always going like a bat out of hell to maintain steerage.
It has the advantage that it can be operated under moister soil conditions than a tractor steerage hoe.
Approaching Salter 's Lode Lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.
Traveling steerage; sitting on hard wooden train seats; walking miles and miles and sleeping where they fell in tiredness.
Among the steerage passengers the fell disease was represented in the person of a little boy.
The different fares may relate to port of disembarkation rather than any distinction between cabin and steerage class.
The Original Beaufort Scale 1 Light Air Or just sufficient to give steerage way.
The receiving center was used to screen mostly third class, or steerage, passengers.
Approaching Salter's Lode Lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.
At Fontainebleau in 1876 Stevenson had met Mrs Osbourne, the lady who afterwards became his wife; she returned to her home in California in 1878, and in August of the following year, alarmed at news of her health, Stevenson hurriedly crossed the Atlantic. He travelled, from lack of means, as a steerage passenger and then as an emigrant, and in December, after hardships which seriously affected his health, he arrived in San Francisco.