Pilot
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
(2):
(n.) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine.
(3):
(n.) A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable.
(4):
(v. t.) To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft).
(5):
(n.) The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
(6):
(n.) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
(7):
(n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
(8):
(n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.
(9):
(n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
(10):
(n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.
(11):
(v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
James 3:4Ezekiel 27:827:27-29
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(חֹבֵל, chobel, Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 27:27-29), literally a steersman, a mariner, is also rendered in our version (Jonah 1:6) "ship-master;" but in the passage in Ezekiel it is used in a figurative sense for the chief rulers or counsellors of the Tyrians. (See Ship).
