steerage• Tony had a danger inside him; other men saw it and gave him steerage.• Those in steeragetend to be forgotten, said Whitcomb, as do most people without money in the Edwardianera.• With just enough power to give Joanna steerage way I felt my way slowly upstream.• Yvonne Flatman had been designated the role of temporaryhelmsman and declared, cheerfully, that she had virtually no steerage way.• It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters.• The colours on the sea grew flat, flatly reflectedflesh secretly seen at night down in the steerage.• But the captain has informed me that there is a case of smallpox in the steerage.• The lower deck, shining clean now, was thronged with steerage passengers.
Originsteerage
(1800-1900)steerage“steering (place)”((15-21 centuries)); because this part of the ship was next to the rudder