steerage

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The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accomodation with no individual cabins
The art of steering
The effect of the helm on a ship
{n} the act of steering, care, part of a ship
That by which a course is directed
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
the act of steering a ship
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
the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
Direction; regulation; management; guidance
the part of a passenger ship where people who had the cheapest tickets used to travel in the past (steerage (15-21 centuries); because this part of the ship was next to the rudder)
The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship
{i} act of steering; third-class passenger section of a ship
steerage
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