different between steersman vs cox

English

Etymology

From steer +? -s- +? -man.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??z.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sti?z.m?n/, /?st??z.m?n/

Noun

steersman (plural steersmen)

1. (nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.

   • And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat’s crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Regatta,”^[1]

     The Indian canoe races were the most exciting of all the Regatta. Ten paddles dipped as one paddle, ten men bent as one man, while the steersman kept time for them with grunting bows.

Synonyms

• (one who steers): helmsman, sternsman

Coordinate terms

• (gender) steerswoman

Related terms

• steer

Translations

Anagrams

• mare's nest, mare's-nest, stearsmen

English

Etymology

Shortening of coxswain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: cocks

Noun

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th C.]

Derived terms

• coxless
• coxie

Verb

cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.

   The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

   I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Derived terms

• coxed

Anagrams

• CXO, CxO

Chol

Noun

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

Swedish

Etymology

From English cox

Noun

cox c

1. a cox

Declension

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?/

Adverb

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli?s, cana, mati?

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117