Treasure Island vocabulary

All the way in, Long John stood by the steersman and conned the ship. He knew the passage like the palm of his hand, and though the man in the chains got everywhere more water than was down in the chart, John never hesitated once.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)

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"Clear the bridge. Take the conn when you get below, Gregoriy."

Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.6 (1984)