Definitions for Helm

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Helm helm

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IPA: /hɛlm/

Helm is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Helm (ehlm).

Definitions for Helm

noun

1. Nautical. a wheel or tiller by which a ship is steered. the entire steering apparatus of a ship. the angle with the fore-and-aft line made by a rudder when turned:
2. the place or post of control:
3. Also, heaume. Also called great helm. a medieval helmet, typically formed as a single cylindrical piece with a flat or raised top, completely enclosing the head.
4. Archaic. a helmet.

verb (used with object)

1. to steer; direct.
2. to furnish or cover with a helmet.

Origin of Helm

before 900; Middle English helme, Old English helma; cognate with Middle High German halme, helm handle, Old Norse hjalm rudder

Examples for Helm

All this time I kept shouting to the man at the wheel to put his helm "hard down."

She stepped behind the camera in 2012 to helm the Lifetime movie Talhotblond.

Both of them argue that they were simply burned out after four years at the helm, and it was just time to move on.

He was initially with a group that traveled by motor vehicles, but has spent the past two decades with a horse at his helm.

I happened to be at the helm, and remained in the Mary and Susan.

I managed to get the helm hard up, and Mallet jumped inboard.

I then proposed we should clamber aft, and try to get the helm up.

James Gunn, the director Marvel handpicked to helm the sci-fi opera Guardians of the Galaxy, was facing a similar quandary.

At this time the brig minded her helm, and fell off, coming under command.

Morbid Anatomy, with Ebenstein at the helm, seems to do it all, from publishing books to leading international trips.