Noun

(en noun)

A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.

* Macaulay

It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:

The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.

Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

We need more volunteers for the netball team .

The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.

(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.

* Holland

a team of ducklings about her

* Dryden

a long team of snowy swans on high

(UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.

* ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450

TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.

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)