1. pilot - Noun
2. pilot - Adjective
3. pilot - Verb
One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
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.
Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn a calm sea every man is a pilot. John Ray
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin
No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm! George Canning
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot. German Proverb
A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair. Danish Proverb
When there is no wind every man is a pilot. French Proverb