Converse of object

• get: Approaching Salter's Lode Lock somewhat fast to get steerage, as going with a serious flood tide.

• maintain: My recollection of meeting these boats was that they where always going like a bat out of hell to maintain steerage.

• travel: Traveling steerage; sitting on hard wooden train seats; walking miles and miles and sleeping where they fell in tiredness.

Modifies a noun

• hoe: In many of these crops, good weed control could be achieved using steerage hoes without the need for hand labor.

• passenger: Among the steerage passengers the fell disease was represented in the person of a little boy.

• class: The different fares may relate to port of disembarkation rather than any distinction between cabin and steerage class.

• passage: Well, I was compelled to take a steerage passage, good enough for me.

• way: The Original Beaufort Scale 1 Light Air Or just sufficient to give steerage way.

Noun used with modifier

• tractor: It has the advantage that it can be operated under moister soil conditions than a tractor steerage hoe.