Cônd'er, n.
n. [From cond, to conduct, q. v.]
Sense 1. A person who stands upon a cliff, or elevated part of the sea-coast, in the time of the herring fishery, to point out to the fishermen, by signs, the course of the shoals of fish. Cowell.
Sense 2. (Naut.) One who gives directions to a helmsman how to steer the ship.