Noah Webster
Pilot
PI'LOT, noun
1. One who steers a ship in a dangerous navigation, or rather one whose office or occupation is to steer ships, particularly along a coast, or into and out of a harbor, bay or river, where navigation is dangerous.
2. A guide; a director of the course of another person. [In colloquial use.]
PI'LOT, verb transitive To direct the course of a ship in any place where navigation is dangerous.