steer-oar

He installed himself in the stern with the steer-oar, and the young man and the girl sat together on the midship seat.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

Over the edge of the precipice projects a large steer-oar, and the handle is held either by the great god Ndengei himself or, according to the better opinion, by his deputy.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Samuela was "all there," though, and as the great beast passed he plunged a harpoon into him with such force and vigour that the very socket entered the blubber it needed all the strength I could muster, even with such an aid as the nineteen-feet steer-oar, to swing the boat right round in his wake, and prevent her being capsized by his headlong rush.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

But coolly, as if coming alongside the ship, the mate bent to the big steer-oar, and swung the boat off at right angles to her course, bringing her back again with another broad sheer as the whale passed foaming.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

The whale's great length made it no easy job for him to turn, while our boat, with two oars a-side, and the great leverage at the stern supplied by the nineteen-foot steer-oar circled, backed, and darted ahead like a living thing animated by the mind of our commander.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

But Samuela was so quick at the steer-oar, so lithe and forceful, and withal appeared so to anticipate every move of mine, that there seemed hardly any danger.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

Helping Mrs. Tracey into the whaleboat, Barry followed, and grasped the long steer-oar.

Edward Barry South Sea Pearler Louis Becke 1884

Pushing the steer-oar before him, he soon reached the boat, and, despite his own unwillingness, his crew insisted on his getting in.

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

When she rose to the surface Von Hammer was fifty feet away, clinging to the steer-oar.

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

All that night, and for the greater part of the following day, he stood in the stern-sheets, grasping the bending steer-oar as the boat swayed and surged along before the gale, and constantly watching lest she should broach to and smother in the roaring seas; the others lay in the bottom, feebly baling out the water, encouraged, urged, and driven to that exertion by the gallant old

"The Gallant, Good Riou", and Jack Renton 1901 Louis Becke 1884