crew

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the men and women who operate a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc.

   The plane made it through the turbulence safely thanks to an experienced crew.

2. 2
   noun

   A group of people together

   There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.

3. 3
   noun

   A person in a crew

   One crew died in the accident.

4. 4
   noun

   The sport of competitive rowing.

   The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

5. 5
   verb

   To be a member of a vessel's crew

   We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.

6. 6
   verb

   To be a member of a work or production crew

   The film was crewed and directed by students.

7. 7
   verb

   To supply workers or sailors for a crew

   The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.

8. 8
   verb

   To do the proper work of a sailor

   The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.

Etymology

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).