crew
/kɹu/ verb C2- To be a member of a vessel's crew. · We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.· The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
- To be a member of a work or production crew. · The film was crewed and directed by students.
- To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
- To do the proper work of a sailor. · The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
- To take on, recruit (new) crew.
He/she/it crews · Past crewed · Past participle crewed · -ing form crewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- crew
- He/she/it
- crews
- Past
- crewed
- Past participle
- crewed
- -ing form
- crewing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The master of La Jeune Amélie, who was very desirous of retaining amongst his crew a man of Edmond’s value, had offered to advance him funds out of his future profits, which Edmond had accepted.
La Jeune Amélie had a very active crew, very obedient to their captain, who lost as little time as possible.
“No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to the crew, he said, “Bear a hand there, to take in sail!”
All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
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