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Same Meaning looks at words that are synonyms.
As in our 'Same Meaning: No.1' quiz, each sentence here contains a word in CAPITAL letters: you need to pick the Answer that offers the nearest meaning to this word.
It means 'to control, be in charge of' or indeed 'to take in hand', since the human hand is the most obvious and subtle control mechanism that we have ... unless the boat has pedals, and there seems to be no suggestion here that we are dealing with pedaled craft