Definition of steerage Steerage

steer•age

We found 16 definitions of steerage from 7 different sources.

What does steerage mean?

Noun Plural: steerages
steerage - the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
steerage - the act of steering a ship
		steering
		control the activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"
		seafaring, navigation, sailing the work of a sailor

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steerage (Noun)
The art of steering.
steerage (Noun)
The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accomodation with no individual cabins.
steerage (Noun)
The effect of the helm on a ship.

steerage (n.)
The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
steerage (n.)
The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
steerage (n.)
The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
steerage (n.)
Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
steerage (n.)
Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
steerage (n.)
That by which a course is directed.

steerage
The lowest and cheapest class of accommodation on a public transport.

steerage
an apartment without the great cabin of a ship, from which it is separated by a thin partition. In large ships of war it is used as a hall through which it is necessary to pass to, arrive at, or depart from the great cabin. In merchant-ships it is generally the habitation of the inferior officers and ship’s crew. See also BIRTH.
steerage
is also used to express the effort of the helm; and hence

steerage
The act of steering. (See NICE STEERAGE.) Also, that part of the ship next below the quarter-deck, immediately before the bulk-head of the great cabin in most ships of war. The portion of the 'tween-decks just before the gun-room bulk-head. In some ships the second-class passengers are called steerage passengers. The admiral's cabin on the middle deck of three-deckers has been called the steerage.