different between steerageway vs steerage

English

Alternative forms

• steerage way
• steerage-way

Etymology

steerage +? way

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??.??d??we?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sti??d??we?/

Noun

steerageway (plural steerageways)

1. (nautical) The minimum speed of a ship, below which it does not answer the helm and cannot be steered.
   • 1902 - Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler, chapter XII

     The latter made one tremendous spurt, then gave up in despair and hauled in his oars. French Pete let go the main-sheet, lost steerageway as he rounded up alongside the motionless skiff, and dragged Joe out.

Translations

English

Etymology

steer +? -age

Noun

steerage (countable and uncountable, plural steerages)

1. (uncountable) The art of steering.
2. (countable) The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
   • 1896, Henry Lawson, For`ard

     It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,

     For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep
3. (countable) The effect of the helm on a ship.

Derived terms

• steerageway

Translations

Anagrams

• eagerest, etageres, rat-geese