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noun

Crew n. (Zool.) The Manx shearwater.

Crew n.

1.

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. "There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side." "Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?"

2.

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat. Note: The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it.

3.

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

Synonyms: Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.

verb

Crow v. i. (past crew or crowed; past part. crowed, obs. crown; pres. part. crowing)

1.

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." "The morning cock crew loud."

2.

To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

3.

To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. "The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses."

To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. "Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem."

Crew v. Imp. of Crow.

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Etymology of 'Crew'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crew" Quotes from Famous Books

... lyric on Shelley's death, which takes the form of the death-bed confession to his priest of an old sailor at Spezzia. The old man, according to a story published in 1875, was one of the crew of a small ship which ran down the boat containing Shelley and Williams, under the mistaken impression that the rich "milord Byron" was on board, with lots of money. Here the style is more that of Browning than of Swinburne. A few lines are quite sufficient ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... prediction communicated to him, than he conceived a mischievous ambition to falsify practically an assertion which the commonest common sense might have informed him had sprung from nothing but popular error and popular superstition. Accompanied by a body of picked men from his crew, he ascended to the Loggan Stone, ordered several levers to be placed under it at one point, gave the word to "heave"—and the next moment had the miserable satisfaction of seeing one of the most remarkable natural curiosities in the world utterly destroyed, for aught he could ...

— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins

... where the captains of both vessels lost their lives in an encounter with the Indians. In fear of the Spaniards, the remaining crews determined to sail across the Pacific. On this voyage the "Hope'' was lost, but in April 1600 the "Charity,'' with a crew of sick and dying men, was brought to anchor off the island of Kiushiu, Japan. Adams was summoned to Osaka and there examined by Iyeyasu, the guardian of the young son of Taiko Sama, the ruler, who ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... stuff of different hues, gray and brown being the leading shades, but both subdued by a neutral tint, such as is wont to harmonize the variegated apparel of travel-stained vagabonds. They looked slouchy, listless, torpid,—an ill-conditioned crew, at first sight, made up of such fellows as an old woman would drive away from her hen-roost with a broomstick. Yet these were estrays from the fiery army which has given our generals so much trouble,—"Secesh prisoners," as a bystander told us. A talk with them might be profitable ...

— Pages From an Old Volume of Life - A Collection Of Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... question, after supping, as we have said, they entered a public-house to drink. It was filled with a noisy crew, as well as with tobacco-smoke and spirituous fumes. They sat down at a retired table ...

— Post Haste • R.M. Ballantyne

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