What is the name meaning of STEER. Phrases containing STEER
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STEER
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Arabic
Steersman; Leader
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English
English : occupational name for someone who was responsible for tending cattle, from Middle English steer ‘bullock’ + man ‘man’.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
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English (mainly Devon) and German
English (mainly Devon) and German : from Middle English steer, Middle Low German stēr ‘bullock’, hence a nickname for a truculent person or a metonymic occupational name for someone who was responsible for tending cattle.South German : from Middle High German ster ‘ram’, probably a nickname for a hard-nosed, stubborn person.
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English
English : occupational name for a navigator, from Old Norse stýrimaðr ‘steersman’ (a compound of stýra ‘to steer’ + maðr ‘man’).English : from an Old French diminutive form Esturmin of a Germanic byname meaning ‘storm’. Compare Storm.North German (Sturmann) : altered spelling of Stuhrmann, an occupational name for a helmsman, from Middle Low German stūren ‘to steer’ + mann ‘man’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; possibly an ornamental name from Polish szturman ‘mate (of a ship)’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Steer.
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English
English : patronymic from Steer.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Steersman. Leader.
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English
English : patronymic from Steer.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places in England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ + ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first element Old English stÄn ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is probably named with Old English stÄ“or ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Variant of Qa'id; Steersman; Leader
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Signifies Fear; Goddess Parvati
Girl/Female
Tamil
Goddess Durga
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English
English : variant of Alsop.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Brave Acclaim
Male
Esperanto
Esperanto form of Latin Ludovicus, LUDOVIKO means "famous warrior."
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Hindu
A devotee to Lord Shiva, A sage who wrote Devi mahatmyam
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British, English
From the Roe-deer Brook
Girl/Female
Muslim
Partner. Participant.
Girl/Female
American, Christian, French, German, Greek, Hindu, Indian, Italian, Latin, Spanish
Angelic; Divine Messenger; Messenger of God
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Autumn; Name of a Season; A Sage
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STEER
n.
One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.
a.
Capable of being steered; dirigible.
n.
A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
imp. & p. p.
of Steer
n.
One who steers; steersman.
n.
One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
n.
A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
v. i.
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
v. t.
To lasso (a steer, horse).
superl.
Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
v. i. & t.
To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
pl.
of Steersman
n.
The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
n.
A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
n.
The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
n.
One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
n.
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
n.
A young small steer.
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of Steer