Read full poem →Fulfils with pulse of diviner pleasure
The dreaming head and the steering hand.
I lean my cheek to the cold grey pillow,
Dictionary Entry
To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
In a Sentence
“I steered homeward.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
wheel steeringcommittee steeringgear steering. steeringgroup steeringcolumn steeringsteering power
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “steering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering;
After groping, after fearing,
Read full poem →Steering up with the stream,
Boldly his course he lay,
Read full poem →And we knew that the iron ship of our foes
Was steadily steering its course
To try the force
Read full poem →Throned in celestial sheen, 145
With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering;
And Heaven, as at some festival,
Read full poem →On life’s incognizable sea,
To too exact a steering of our way;
Let us not fret and fear to miss our aim,
Read full poem →His pencil our faces, his manners our heart;
To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,
When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing:
Read full poem →His pencil our faces, his manners our heart:
To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,
When they judg’d without skill he was still hard of hearing:
Read full poem →I swayed upon the gaudy stern
The butt end of a steering oar,
And everywhere that I could turn