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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nautical The steering gear of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
  2. n. A position of leadership or control: at the helm of the government.
  3. v. To take the helm of; steer or direct.
  4. n. A helmet.
  5. v. To cover or furnish with a helmet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A handle; a helve.
  2. n. Nautical, the handle, lever, or instrument by which the rudder is shifted; the tiller, or in large ships the wheel: sometimes extended to include the whole steering-apparatus.
  3. n. Hence The place or post of direction or management: as, to take the helm of affairs.
  4. To steer; guide; direct.
  5. n. A defensive cover for the head; a helmet. See helmet, now the more common form.
  6. n. A dark heavy cloud that rests on the brow of a mountain before a storm, while the rest of the sky is clear. Also helm-cloud and helmet.
  7. n. A hovel; an outhouse.
  8. To furnish with a helmet; cover with a helmet, as a knight.
  9. n. Same as halm.
  10. n. Said of a vessel the tendency of which is to keep coming up into the wind, and which requires that the tiller be kept more or less to windward to counteract it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic A helmet.
  2. n. nautical The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
  3. n. maritime The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat.
  4. n. metaphor A position of leadership or control.
  5. v. To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
  6. v. by extension To lead (a project, etc.).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See haulm, straw.
  2. n. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.
  3. n. The place or office of direction or administration.
  4. n. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.
  5. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A helve.
  6. v. rare To steer; to guide; to direct.
  7. n. Poetic A helmet.
  8. n. Prov. Eng. A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
  9. v. Perh. used only as a past part. or part. adj. To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be at or take the helm of
  2. n. steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
  3. n. a position of leadership

Etymologies

  1. From Old English helma, from Proto-Germanic *helmô (“handle”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English helma.Middle English, from Old English; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. steersman
  1. director
  1. helve
  1. steer
  1. guide
  1. direct
  1. helmet
  1. tiller

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘helm’

  1. helm aweather

hypernyms (12)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. direct
  2. guide
  1. point
  2. manoeuver
  1. channelise
  2. channelize
  1. steer
  2. manoeuvre
  1. head
  2. maneuver
  1. leadership
  2. leading

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. helmet
  2. cuirass
  3. breastplate
  4. casque
  1. rudder
  2. Armour
  3. lance
  4. prow
  1. shield
  2. hauberk
  3. buckler
  4. tiller
  1. bow
  2. mast
  3. hull
  4. helmsman
  1. dagger
  2. girdle
  3. cockpit
  4. cloak
  1. mail
  2. keel
  3. wheel
  4. visor

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. elm
  1. overwhelm
  1. realm
  1. underwhelm

reverse dictionary (74)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wheel
  2. helm-bar
  3. helm-indicator
  4. helm-cloud
  5. steerage
  6. tack
  7. tiller
  8. advance
  9. helm
  10. helmet
  11. rudder-telltale
  12. handy
  13. heaume
  14. helm down
  1. helm up
  2. helmless
  3. helmsman
  4. helmwind
  5. gripe
  6. unhelm
  7. uphelm
  8. yare
  9. rehelm
  10. starboard
  11. steerageway
  12. aluff
  13. aport
  14. ahull
  1. aweather
  2. con
  3. governail
  4. helm-guard
  5. Lumière
  6. midships
  7. alee
  8. hard alee
  9. to bear up
  10. crest
  11. down helm
  12. to ease a ship
  13. to ease the helm
  14. binnacle
  1. port
  2. trick
  3. timon
  4. quartermaster
  5. shoot
  6. to spring the luff
  7. steer
  8. stern
  9. telltale
  10. unhelmed
  11. water-logged
  12. wear
  13. weather helm
  14. amidships
  1. answer
  2. ease
  3. fan-crest
  4. forelock
  5. half-board
  6. hard
  7. key
  8. marshal
  9. obey
  10. pilot
  11. rudder
  12. sallet
  13. shiver
  14. spurling-line
  1. bar
  2. indicator
  3. slackness
  4. tend

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  1. nautical

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  • ruzuzu "n. A dark heavy cloud that rests on the brow of a mountain before a storm, while the rest of the sky is clear. Also helm-cloud and helmet." --CD&C Feb 10, 2012

  • qroqqa Mr. Robert Montgomery is very severe on the infidels, and undertakes to prove, that, as he elegantly expresses it,

    "One great Enchanter helm'd the harmonious whole."

    What an enchanter has to do with helming, or what a helm has to do with harmony, he does not explain.

    —Macaulay eviscerating the unfortunate poet Robert Montgomery, 1830 (ganked from Language Log) Jun 15, 2009

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