crew see: crow
II. noun see: crescent
Date: 15th century
a band or force of armed men,
2. a group of people associated together in a common activity or by common traits or interests, gang 1b(2),
3. a company of people working on one job or under one foreman or operating a machine, the whole company belonging to a ship sometimes including the officers and master, the persons who have duties on an aircraft in flight, the rowers and coxswain of a racing shell, crewless adjective
III. verb
Date: 1935
intransitive verb to act as a member of a crew, transitive verb to serve as a crew member on (as a ship or aircraft)