Citations:steeler

sense: part of a ship

 * 1812, Henry Weber, footnote to The Knight of the Burning Pestle, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume 1, James Ballantyne and Company, page 159:
 * This passage proves that the tiller there mentioned was a steeler.
 * 1921 May 20 or May 25, "Perry's Victory Memorial", document 35 in Senate Documents, 67th Congress, 1st session, volume 2, Government Printing Office, page 56:
 * The steeler in the dead wood aft, instead of being of planks, was carved out of a single piece of wood. From stem to sternpost the Niagara is 118 feet long, has a 30-foot beam, and a draft of about 9 feet.