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Crew   /kru/   Listen
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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"Crew" Quotes from Famous Books



... to acquaint you that the L'Aigle from Calais, Pierre Duquin, Master, has this moment landed me near Dover, to proceed to the Capital with dispatches of the happiest nature. I have pledged my honor that no harm shall come to the crew of the L'Aigle; even with a flag of truce they immediately stood for sea. Should they be taken, I have to entreat you immediately to liberate them. My anxiety will not allow me to say more for your gratification, ...
— The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, • William Brodie Gurney
... Nor were the crew forgotten. From the day when the Moravians helped lift the anchor as they sailed from the coast of Dover, they busied themselves in the work of the ship, always obliging, always helpful, until the sailors came to trust them absolutely, "even with the keys to their lockers." When the cook was ...
— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries
... company with the winners would be as far as the pop-shop. But lying there in the clean-smelling, airy Hospital ward, he yearned with a mighty yearning for the stuffy West-Central classroom, and the rowdy crew of London roughs hulking and hustling on the benches, learning per medium of "the dodger," that one's duty to one's neighbour was not to abuse him foully without cause, to refrain one's hands from pocket-picking, shop-raiding, hustling, and jellying heads with brass-buckled belts or iron knuckle-dusters, ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... from the saloon doorway with his lobster eyes. He was heard from the distance in a tone of injured innocence reporting that the berthing master was alongside and that he wanted to move the ship into the basin before the crew came on board. ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... that the meteor did not strike any of us, when, glancing at a ship just ahead, I perceived that an accident had occurred. The ship swayed violently from its course, dazzling flashes played around it, and two or three of the men forming its crew appeared for an instant on its exterior, wildly gesticulating, ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss


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