steerer
- n the person who steers a ship
- n a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- How the racket works: an injured workman is told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal .
- Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel.
- Nor is the Brain a guided missile steerer.