The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TILLER
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More clues leading to the result TILLER
- Team's beginning less well? Captain should have this in hand
- Farm tool creating lines in a row
- Steering device? Twice left in a row
- Row about two pounds wanted for a steering device
- £50 in bank that navigator gets hold of
- It helps to guide one cultivating crops
- Simple farmer one used to steer
- . Ploughman‘s navigational aid
- Ploughman makes lines in row
- Who fixes the roof with extra line for turning handle?
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The straight part
We know that "Steering device" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case steering device = tiller.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TILLER mean?
TILLER noun- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- A young tree.
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
- The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- A handle; a stalk.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
- A small drawer; a till.