Noun

(en noun)

A going, journey; a course, path, track.

* 1840 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes I":

In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang

* 1869 , Papa André , Once a Week, page 418/1:

That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon'' ganger'', to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.

* 1895 , Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl , Modern Language Association of America, page 229:

Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

the Gashouse Gang

The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.

A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

a gang''' of sailors; a railroad '''gang .

(US) A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

a youth gang'''; a neighborhood '''gang'''; motorcycle '''gang .

A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

the Winter Hill gang'''; the '''Gang of Four.

Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.

(US) A chain gang.

A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

a gang''' of saws; a '''gang of plows.

A set; all required for an outfit.

a new gang of stays.

(electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

an outlet gang''' box; a double '''gang switch.

(electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

a gang of wires

Do a drop for the telephone gang''', then another drop for the internet '''gang , both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.

(mining) The mineral substance which encloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Noun

(en noun)

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane

If you need help, please contact a member of the crew .

The crews of the two ships got into a fight.

A member of the crew of a vessel or plant

One crew died in the accident.

(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

* Spenser

There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.

* Milton

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer

The officers and crew assembled on the deck.

''There are quarters for three officers and five crew .

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast

There are a lot of carpenters in the crew !

The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast

There were three actors and six crew on the set.

A group of people working together on a task

The crews competed to cut the most timber.

A close group of friends

I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker

* 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body

He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;

They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew ,

But his soul is marching on.

* {{quote-book, 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page=266 citation

, passage=Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers. }}

(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group

* {{quote-book, 2003, Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno, Are Italians White?, page=150 citation

, passage=We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.}}

(sports, rowing, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.

* {{quote-book, 1989, & Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock citation

, passage=Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.}}

(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.

* {{quote-book, 1888, , Boating citation

, passage=If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.}} Image:STS-87_crew_1.jpg, Crew of a spaceship Image:Toronto female rowing team.jpg, Crew of a rowing shell Image:ScottKalittaDragsterPits.jpg, Crew working on a race car Image:Daara J.jpg, A hip-hop crew

Noun

(en noun)

(British, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

* {{quote-book, 2004, , On the Edge, page=7 citation

, passage=Between the shippon and the pig-crew , with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.}}

Noun

(en noun)

The Manx shearwater.

(Webster 1913)