Crew
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
(2): (imp.) of Crow
(3): (n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
(4): (n.) 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.
(5): imp. of Crow
(6): (n.) The Manx shearwater.
King James Dictionary [2]
Crew, n.
1. A company of people associated as a noble crew a gallant crew. 2. A company, in a low or bad sense, which is now most usual a herd as a rebel crew.
So we say, a miserable crew.
3. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel or boat the company belonging to a vessel. Also, the company or gang of a carpenter, gunner, boatswain, &c. It is appropriated to the common sailors.
Crew, pret. of crow, but the regular preterit and participle, crowed, is now most commonly used.
