Synonyms of the word

steerer

• n. Someone or something that steers.

accomplice

• n. (rare) A cooperator.
• n. (law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or…

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

confederate

• n. A member of a confederacy.
• n. An accomplice in a plot.
• n. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in…
• adj. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy.
• adj. banded together; allied.
• v. To combine into a confederacy.

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

decoy

• n. A person or object meant to lure something to danger.
• n. A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
• v. To act or use a decoy.
• v. (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.

gob

• n. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
• n. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
• n. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
• n. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
• n. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
• v. To gather into a lump.
• v. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

helmsman

• n. (nautical) A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering.
• n. (figuratively) A leader.

mariner

• n. A sailor.

seafarer

• n. A sailor or mariner.
• n. One who travels by sea.

seaman

• n. A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
• n. (Britain, Navy) The lowest ranking in the Navy, below Able Seaman.
• n. (US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty…
• n. A merman; the male of the mermaid.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

steersman

• n. (nautical) One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.

tar

• n. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from…
• n. Coal tar.
• n. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
• n. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
• n. Black tar, a form of heroin.
• v. (transitive) To coat with tar.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• n. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
• n. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
• v. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
• n. (music) A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle…
• n. (music) A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).