stjórinafnorðkarlkyn1. a, m. a steerer, ruler, Lex. Poët., mostly in compds.2. a, m. a kind of stone anchor (Gr. εὐνή); hleypa niðr stjóra, Eg. 142; draga stjóra, to weigh the s., Hallgr.: metaph. phrase, taka stjórann, to ‘cut and run.’