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This has really been bugging me.

Leetman

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About 30 minutes ago, a friend asked me what you call the steering wheel of a large ship or boat, and its right on the tip of my tongue but have had no luck finding it, even with google. Anyone have any idea?
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: MacBaine
the steering wheel of a large ship or boat

Hehe 🙂

? WHAT?

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You need to watch more Star Trek. Is the term you're looking for "the helm" ?


From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Helm \Helm\, n. [OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G.
helm, Icel. hj[=a]lm, and perh. to E. helve.]
1. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered,
comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used
of the tiller or wheel alone.

2. The place or office of direction or administration. ``The
helm of the Commonwealth.'' --Melmoth.

3. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman;
hence, a guide; a director.

The helms o' the State, who care for you like
fathers. --Shak.

4. [Cf. Helve.] A helve. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Helm amidships, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in
the same plane.

Helm aport, when the tiller is borne over to the port side
of the ship.

Helm astarboard, when the tiller is borne to the starboard
side.

Helm alee, Helm aweather, when the tiller is borne over
to the lee or to the weather side.

Helm hard alee or hard aport, hard astarboard, etc.,
when the tiller is borne over to the extreme limit.

Helm port, the round hole in a vessel's counter through
which the rudderstock passes.

Helm down, helm alee.

Helm up, helm aweather.

To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more amidships, so
as to lessen the strain on the rudder.

To feel the helm, to obey it.

To right the helm, to put it amidships.

To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the
corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.

 
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