The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
An order or command.
To determine or decisively affect.
To order, command, control.
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.