crew

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A group of people working together; a gang: a crew of stagehands.
2. n. A group of people gathered together temporarily; a crowd.
3. n. All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.
4. n. All of a ship's personnel except the officers.
5. n. All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.
6. n. Sports A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.
7. n. Sports The sport of rowing.
8. v. To serve as a member of a crew: crewed on a sloop.
9. v. To serve as a crew member on: The space station will be crewed by a team of eight people.
10. v. Chiefly British A past tense of crow².

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An accession; a reinforcement; a company of soldiers or others sent as a reinforcement, or on an expedition. See accrue, n.
2. n. Any company of people; an assemblage; a crowd: nearly always in a derogatory or a humorous sense.
3. n. 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. The company or gang of a ship's carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc.
5. n. 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. Synonyms Band, party, herd, mob, horde, throng.
7. n. An archaic preterit of crow.

Wiktionary

1. n. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat or airplane
2. n. A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
3. n. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
4. n. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
5. n. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
6. n. A group of people working together on a task
7. n. A close group of friends
8. n. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
9. n. A hip-hop group
10. n. The sport of competitive rowing
11. n. A rowing team manning a single shell
12. n. A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
13. v. To be a member of a vessel's crew
14. v. To be a member of a work or production crew
15. v. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
16. v. To do the proper work of a sailor
17. v. To take on, recruit (new) crew
18. v. simple past tense and past participle of crow. To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The Manx shearwater.
2. n. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
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.
5. imp. of crow

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an informal body of friends
2. n. the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
3. v. serve as a crew member on
4. n. the team of men manning a racing shell
5. n. an organized group of workmen