"helmless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From helm + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "To Sleep I give my powers away;\n⁠My will is bondsman to the dark;\n⁠I sit within a helmless bark,\nAnd with my heart I muse and say: […]",
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        "Without a helm (steering apparatus of a ship)."
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  "word": "helmless"
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  "etymology_text": "From helm + -less.",
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          "text": "To Sleep I give my powers away;\n⁠My will is bondsman to the dark;\n⁠I sit within a helmless bark,\nAnd with my heart I muse and say: […]",
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