Usually means: Minimum speed for directional control.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. steerageway: Merriam-Webster
  2. steerageway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. steerageway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. steerageway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. steerageway: Vocabulary.com
  6. steerageway: Wordnik
  7. steerageway: Wiktionary
  8. steerageway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. steerageway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. steerageway: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. steerageway: Dictionary.com
  12. Steerageway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. steerageway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. steerageway: Rhymezone
  15. Steerageway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. steerageway: FreeDictionary.org
  17. steerageway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. steerageway: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. steerageway: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Steerageway: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (steerageway)

▸ noun:  (nautical) The minimum speed of a ship, below which it does not answer the helm and cannot be steered.

Similar:
steeve, steerboard, stool, keel, taffrail, trackway, bilge keel, stealer, false keel, slow street, more...

Opposite:
leeway, drift, drag, slipstream

Types:
rudder, tiller, wheel, more...

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Similar:
steeve, steerboard, stool, keel, taffrail, trackway, bilge keel, stealer, false keel, slow street, more...

Opposite:
leeway, drift, drag, slipstream

Types:
rudder, tiller, wheel, more...



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