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Definition of Steerages
1. steerage [n] - See also: steerage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steerages
Literary usage of Steerages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early by Henry Fry (1896)
"The first-cabin rooms are situated amidships; the second-cabin rooms immediately
abaft the machinery space ; the steerages forward and aft of these ..."
2. The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation: With Some Account of Early by Henry Fry (1896)
"The first-cabin rooms are situated amidships; the second-cabin rooms immediately
abaft the machinery space ; the steerages forward and aft of these ..."
3. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"Between the fore and after steerages, a partition has been erected. Formerly both
sexes were lodged together, and sometimes men and women were placed in the ..."
4. The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"The second cabin, to return, is thus a modified oasis in the very heart of the
steerages. Through the thin partition you can hear the steerage passengers ..."
5. Immigration, a World Movement and Its American Significance by Henry Pratt Fairchild (1913)
"Steerages are usually divided into three compartments, more or less completely
... Steerages on the transatlantic vessels are divided into two main classes, ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"It was then voted — there not being a dissenting voice — that the freedom of the
steerages should be extended to me ; a privilege bestowed upon few, ..."
7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"It was then voted — there not being a dissenting voice — that the freedom of the
steerages should be extended to me ; a privilege bestowed upon few, ..."
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