crew

Meanings

Noun

• A group of people together
• A person in a crew
• The sport of competitive rowing.
• A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
• The Manx shearwater.

Verb

• To be a member of a vessel's crew
• To be a member of a work or production crew
• To supply workers or sailors for a crew
• To do the proper work of a sailor
• To take on, recruit (new) crew
• Past of crow.

Related

Similar words

• ship's company, all hands, complement
• team, gang
• staff, stagehands
• clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot ; posse
• crowd, flock, lot, gang
• posse, band, group
• crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
• seaman

Origin

• From Middle English crue, from Old French creue ("an increase, recruit, military reinforcement"), the feminine past participle of creistre, from Latin cresco ("to arise, grow").
• Probably of origin.