a handle or wheel used for steering a boat or ship
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at the helm
1 in charge of an organization, project, etc.
2 steering a boat or ship
take the helm
1 to take charge of an organization, project, etc.
2 to begin steering a boat or ship
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for helm is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is helm a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, helm is tagged as noun.
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