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Possibly a crew member of the schooner Willem Barentsz. Page 78 verso from a sketchbook with 110 sheets, served during the expedition to Nova Zembla in 1880.
Possibly a crew member of the schooner Willem Barentsz. Page 78 verso from a sketchbook with 110 sheets, served during the expedition to Nova Zembla in 1880.
  1. (v) crew
    serve as a crew member on
  2. (n) crew
    an organized group of workmen
  3. (n) crew
    the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
  4. (n) crew
    the team of men manning a racing shell
  5. (n) crew
    an informal body of friends "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
Illustrations
Crew members shovel the snow around the boat to be able to tow it to the house. In the background, sleds are made near the house and laundry is done and hung to dry in a large cooking kettle. Opposite page 101 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
Crew members shovel the snow around the boat to be able to tow it to the house. In the background, sleds are made near the house and laundry is done and hung to dry in a large cooking kettle. Opposite page 101 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
Crew members on and around the stranded ship fighting three polar bears. In the background, the completed Beekeeping Huys. Opposite page 72 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
Crew members on and around the stranded ship fighting three polar bears. In the background, the completed Beekeeping Huys. Opposite page 72 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
In the foreground, crew members climb overboard to cut the ice around the ship. In the background the ship is now enclosed by the ice in IJshaven and part of the crew can be seen ashore. Opposite page 60 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
In the foreground, crew members climb overboard to cut the ice around the ship. In the background the ship is now enclosed by the ice in IJshaven and part of the crew can be seen ashore. Opposite page 60 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598).
In the foreground two ships, the crew of which are busy bringing in a net filled with herring. Behind the boat a line with tons of herring. On the left a sloop with ten rowers and a helmsman.
In the foreground two ships, the crew of which are busy bringing in a net filled with herring. Behind the boat a line with tons of herring. On the left a sloop with ten rowers and a helmsman.
Maarten Tromp on board his admiral ship between members of his crew before the start of the naval battle at Duins between the Dutch and Spanish fleets, October 21, 1639. In the distance the Spanish fleet commanded by Antonio de Oquendo.
Maarten Tromp on board his admiral ship between members of his crew before the start of the naval battle at Duins between the Dutch and Spanish fleets, October 21, 1639. In the distance the Spanish fleet commanded by Antonio de Oquendo.
The VOC ship Terschelling hit a sandbank just off the Bengal coast and the crew tries to save themselves and reach the coast with a self-made raft. Page from a book, with illustration and text on the recto and verso.
The VOC ship Terschelling hit a sandbank just off the Bengal coast and the crew tries to save themselves and reach the coast with a self-made raft. Page from a book, with illustration and text on the recto and verso.
Members of the crew of the VOC ship Terschelling, who are stranded on a lonely island off Bengal, argue over the meat of a dead buffalo. Two men with knives face each other.
Members of the crew of the VOC ship Terschelling, who are stranded on a lonely island off Bengal, argue over the meat of a dead buffalo. Two men with knives face each other.
The open sea with a rowing boat with crew in the foreground. A harpooner is ready to throw a spear at a whale.
The open sea with a rowing boat with crew in the foreground. A harpooner is ready to throw a spear at a whale.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon
  1. Crew
    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. Crew
    The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
  3. Crew
    krṳ (Zoöl) The Manx shearwater.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.
  1. (n) crew
    An accession; a reinforcement; a company of soldiers or others sent as a reinforcement, or on an expedition. See accrue, n.
  2. (n) crew
    Any company of people; an assemblage; a crowd: nearly always in a derogatory or a humorous sense.
  3. (n) crew
    Nautical: The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or boat; the seamen belonging to a vessel; specifically, the common sailors of a ship's company. In a broad (but not properly nautical) sense the word comprises all the officers and men on board a ship, enrolled on the books. It has received this interpretation in law.
  4. (n) crew
    The company or gang of a ship's carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc.
  5. (n) crew
    Any company or gang of laborers engaged upon a particular work, as the company of men (engineer, fireman, conductor, brakemen, etc.) who manage and run a railroad-train.
  6. (n) crew
    Synonyms Band, party, herd, mob, horde, throng.
  7. (n) crew
    An archaic preterit of crow.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
If you pause Saturday Night Fever at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
  1. (n) Crew
    krōō a company, squad, or gang, often in a bad or contemptuous sense: a ship's company.
  2. (pa.t) Crew
    krōō of Crow.
Quotations
John Milton
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
John Milton
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From older accrue, accession, reenforcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See Accrue Crescent

Usage in the news

An area of I-10 could be closed for multiple days while transportation crews repair a water pressure problem. kgun9.com

Rest areas on the eastbound and westbound sides of I-10 at San Simon will remain closed until crews with the Arizona Department of Transportation repair water systems at the rest facilities. kgun9.com

A Los Angeles-based film crew spent Tuesday morning at the Boardman Police Department. kbn.com

If you saw Paper magazine's Mickey Boardman sporting a crew cut at the Cynthia Rowley show yesterday, it wasn't a salute to the troops. nypost.com

Crews Remove Iconic Sycamore from BODO . boiseweekly.com

The crew that wheels at the farm is a dedicated bunch. 4wheeloffroad.com

AT 1 am on a recent Saturday, the area around ground zero in Lower Manhattan appeared deserted except for a crew from Con Edison. nytimes.com

Photos courtesy of Skeleton Crew Theater of Greenfield, Mass. thereminder.com

Don Straub, kneeling second from left, poses with his crew in 1944. denverpost.com

Saturday night at the NAA Marketing conference in Orlando and the crew is hungry. blog.newsok.com

Reaper Crew's championship comeback caps undefeated run. triplicate.com

The rigging crew works on the largest of the Steelroot sculptures at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. minnesota.publicradio.org

The Apollo 17 crew reported that from space, Earth looks like a big blue marble. gcn.com

Construction crews began working in the area Sept 10 and will continue through about Nov 1. deseretnews.com

Crews surround court facility with 14 Conex boxes as short-term security fix. dailyranger.com

Usage in scientific papers

We would like to thank all the members of the PPS testbeam crew for their support during the testbeam campaigns of the last years.
Planar Pixel Sensors for the ATLAS tracker upgrade at HL-LHC

We also thank the NSBF balloon crews that have supported the HEAT balloon flights.
Measurements of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction From 1 to 50 GeV

We acknowledge the benefit from the DESY II accelerator crew and the test area maintainance group.
Tests of a fiber detector concept for high rate particle tracking

Similarly, no facility can operate without an experienced safety crew.
Reference Design Project Book: NUSEL-Homestake

As was done in Homestake operations, mine safety will be handled by a crew selected from the workers listed above, and especially trained. Homestake’s crew has won many national awards.
Reference Design Project Book: NUSEL-Homestake

Usage in literature

The news got round among the crew, and however the officer may have felt, there was no indifference there. "A Prisoner of Morro" by Upton Sinclair

But I ain't going to give in to a mutiny right before the face and eyes of my own crew. "Blow The Man Down" by Holman Day

The typical British North American crew of the nineteenth-century sailing ship is the Bluenose crew. "All Afloat" by William Wood

The bos'un was, although hard on the crew, not brutal, and he never struck them. "The Call Of The South" by Louis Becke

The two men of the ship's crew had it in mind to be infinitely suspicious of anybody examining their ship. "Space Platform" by Murray Leinster

A trireme of the days of the Persian War with fifty or sixty oars would thus have a crew of 150 or 180 rowers. "Famous Sea Fights" by John Richard Hale

The cutter's crew will be quite sufficient. "The Flag of Distress" by Mayne Reid

They had discovered something which kept most of the crew under suspended animation for years upon years. "Hunters Out of Space" by Joseph Everidge Kelleam

I trounced one of his own crew, a six-foot bully with a dirk and pistols. "Blackbeard: Buccaneer" by Ralph D. Paine

With only two exceptions, the officers and crew of the Josephine were all old sailors. "Dikes and Ditches" by Oliver Optic

Usage in poetry
The punishment ordained for you
In that infernal spot
Is het by Satan's impish crew
And kept forever hot.
"Summer Heat" by Eugene Field Author object (196)
"Oh, stately man and old beside,
Why dost gymnastics do?
Is such example dignified
To set before your crew?"
"The Dutiful Mariner" by Wallace Irwin
Beyond the fall of dews,
Deeper than plummet lies,
Float ships, with all their crews,
No more to sink nor rise.
"The Witnesses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author object (294)
And Judas fled in his horror,
With that fell crew behind,
And as they sped the people said
Death rode upon the wind.
"The Ballad of Lost Souls" by John Oxenham
"Ah, verily a Jester's prayer,"
Exclaimed the knightly crew,
"To ask of such a noble lord
What you know he cannot do."
"Betzko" by Hanford Lennox Gordon
And as he lay there sorrowing,
Up came the felon crew.
They flailed him with their dead bodies
They heeded not his rue.
"The Ballad of Lost Souls" by John Oxenham