rudderhead

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English

Etymology

rudder +‎ head

Noun

rudderhead (plural rudderheads)

  1. (nautical) The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attached.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rudderhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)