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steerageway
[ steer-ij-wey ]
noun
, Nautical.
- sufficient speed to permit a vessel to be maneuvered.
steerageway
/ ˈstɪərɪdʒˌweɪ /
noun
- nautical enough forward movement to allow a vessel to be steered
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Word History and Origins
Origin of steerageway1
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Example Sentences
Thus it lost headway sufficiently so that the seas caused it to drift back, without its coming about or losing all steerageway.
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With her small area of exposed sail and with the wind buffeting her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway.
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As the other approached, Harry shut off the power of the engines, checking them to little more than steerageway.
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He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail.
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I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway.
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