Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COND'ER, n. [Fr. conduire; L. conduco. See Cond.]

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. – Cowel.
2. One who gives directions to a helmsman how to steer the ship. – Encyc.