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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Crew

Crew (krṳ), n. (Zoöl.) The Manx shearwater.

Crew (krṳ), n. [From older accrue accession, reënforcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See Accrue, Crescent.] 1. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser.

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew? Milton.

2. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

☞ 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. Story. Burrill.

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.

Syn. — Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.

Crew (krṳ), imp. of Crow.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.