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Motif · motif_ships_wheel

Ship's Wheel

A ship's steering wheel, drawn with spokes projecting beyond the rim. THIN ROW: the single attestation is membership of a subject list - “mermaids, contortionists, sailing ships and helms” - using the word 'helms' rather than 'ship's wheel'. Registered under the plainer name with the source's word as an alias. No meaning, no edge.
Thin
Low confidencedraft

0 attested · 2 promoted1 source · T2

Also called Helm

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
object
Variants
helm; ship's wheel with anchor
Common styles
american traditional
Common themes
maritime

Provenance

1 resolved

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    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine book feature. Names traditional subject pairings verbatim: "snake and dagger pierced hearts", "devils ride alongside hearts and crosses with daggers", and a subject list including "mermaids, contortionists, sailing ships and helms". Cited in this batch ONLY as attestation that these objects are drawn subjects; the page states no symbolic meaning for any of them.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-06-09 · retrieved 2026-08-30

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Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingMaritimeThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationdraft

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_ships_wheel ('maritime'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Frequently used in · 1

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationdraft

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_ships_wheel ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.