Usually means: Assistant on whaling boats; harpooner.
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  1. boatsteerer: Merriam-Webster
  2. Boatsteerer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. boatsteerer: Wiktionary

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noun:  (dated, nautical) The person, in a whaleboat, who manned the forward oar and whose task was to harpoon whales

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