Usually means: Control surface for steering boats.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. rudder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rudder: Merriam-Webster
  3. rudder, rudder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rudder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rudder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rudder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rudder, rudder: Wordnik
  8. rudder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder, Rudder: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. rudder: Wiktionary
  11. rudder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. rudder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. rudder: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Rudder, rudder: Dictionary.com
  15. rudder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. rudder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Rudder (software), Rudder (surname), Rudder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Rudder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. rudder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. rudder: Rhymezone
  21. rudder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. rudder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Rudder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. rudder: FreeDictionary.org
  25. rudder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. rudder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. rudder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rudder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rudder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rudder: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Rudder: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rudder: Chapters in the Sky
  2. RUDDER: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See rudderless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
noun:  (aeronautics) A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
noun:  A riddle or sieve.
noun:  (figurative) That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.

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