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STEER
Boy/Male
Muslim
Steersman. Leader.
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English
English : patronymic from Steer.
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English
English : patronymic from Steer.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who was responsible for tending cattle, from Middle English steer ‘bullock’ + man ‘man’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Steer.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Steersman; Leader
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places in England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ + ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first element Old English stÄn ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is probably named with Old English stÄ“or ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
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English (mainly Devon) and German
English (mainly Devon) and German : from Middle English steer, Middle Low German stēr ‘bullock’, hence a nickname for a truculent person or a metonymic occupational name for someone who was responsible for tending cattle.South German : from Middle High German ster ‘ram’, probably a nickname for a hard-nosed, stubborn person.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Variant of Qa'id; Steersman; Leader
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English
English : occupational name for a navigator, from Old Norse stýrimaðr ‘steersman’ (a compound of stýra ‘to steer’ + maðr ‘man’).English : from an Old French diminutive form Esturmin of a Germanic byname meaning ‘storm’. Compare Storm.North German (Sturmann) : altered spelling of Stuhrmann, an occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle Low German stūren ‘to steer’ + mann ‘man’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; possibly an ornamental name from Polish szturman ‘mate (of a ship)’.
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Girl/Female
English American French
Abbreviation of Richard. In the USA Dixie refers to the French word for ten; also to the southern...
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Rain of Brightness
Girl/Female
Norse
Beauty of Froy.
Boy/Male
Indian
Quick.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Ruler; Chief
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Name of a Sahahiyyah
Boy/Male
Biblical
Treading under foot; manger.
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English
English : patronymic from Jenkin. Compare Jenkins. The form Jenkinson is rather more common in Lancashire and southern Yorkshire.
Boy/Male
Afghan, Hebrew, Indian, Parsi, Sanskrit
Grape Presser; World; Song
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n.
One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
n.
One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Steer
v. t.
To lasso (a steer, horse).
n.
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
n.
A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
n.
A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
n.
A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
superl.
Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
n.
The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
n.
One who steers; steersman.
n.
A young small steer.
n.
One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.
a.
Capable of being steered; dirigible.
pl.
of Steersman
v. i. & t.
To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
v. i.
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
imp. & p. p.
of Steer
n.
The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.